Review: UT Opera Theatre’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Recital Report: Brahms Chamber Music with Piano Wraps with 7th Recital
On Monday, Kevin Class wrapped up his seven recital series of the Complete Chamber Music of Brahms with piano. Over the seven recitals, Class was joined by 15 guest musicians and UTSOM faculty members.
Hark! January Classical Music!
The Knoxville classical and jazz music scene resumes this week, admittedly a bit slowly at first as if still recovering from New Year’s overindulgence. But then, look out—there are major events in January that surely need to be on your…
Review: UT Opera Theatre’s ‘The Consul’
At the time Gian Carlo Menotti created his opera The Consul in 1950, American notions of bureaucracy and its practitioners were defined by deep suspicion and the fear of insidious dehumanization. By today’s standards, those attitudes were almost laughably simplistic. Our…
This Week: KSO’s Concertmaster Series at the KMA
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series of chamber music events, Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends, opens its 4th season this week on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Knoxville Museum of Art. What has made the series so charming are the friendly…
Review: Magically Delicious–UT Opera Theatre Charms with Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
Without doubt, the very things that make Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) compelling theatre are also the things that can become mind-boggling difficulties in modern productions. Its allegorical themes of enlightenment vs. ignorance, and the basic good vs. evil…
Review: KSO Concertmaster Series Shows Off Its New Friends
This week’s installment of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series of chamber music—Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends—showed off just how important friends are, both onstage and in the audience. One of the works programmed offered the largest ensemble yet for the series—the “Winter” concerto…
Review: UT Opera Theatre, World Premiere of Larry Delinger’s ‘Medea’
Steve Smith, music writer and currently the Assistant Arts Editor at the Boston Globe, wrote in the New York Times in 2011: “New York is unquestionably an international capital of the arts, but it can also be a frustrating backwater…
UT Opera Theatre Offers ‘Medea’ This Weekend
The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre presents the world premiere of Larry Delinger’s Medea this weekend in four performances at the Relix Variety Theatre. Delinger’s Medea features a libretto by Douglas Langworthy, who translated and adapted the classic story from…
Friday: Delingerfest Begins
American contemporary composers must wage constant battles–battles for recognition, for work, and for performances of their work. Occasionally, though, the planets align for both composer and audience as they are doing with the UT School of Music’s DELINGERFEST, performances and activities…