Dogwood Arts: “Converge: Coming Together, Embracing Balance” Dogwood Arts opens a new exhibition on FIRST FRIDAY (March 3) entitled “Converge: Coming Together, Embracing Balance.” The show is a group exhibition featuring artwork by twenty-five local immigrant and refugee artists. The…
Review: Exploring Appalachian and Slavic Roads with Mandolinist Jeff Midkiff and KSO Strings
BY ALAN SHERROD Knoxville’s Bijou Theatre enjoys a whirlwind of concert bookings during its busy season, covering every imaginable genre of performance from every imaginable description of performer. Few of these guests, however, can showcase and illuminate the hall’s…
Review in Brief: KSO and Laura Beth Wells Bring A Sunday Afternoon Audience To Joy and Tears
BY ALAN SHERROD While a sudden fall rain fell outside the Bijou Theatre on Sunday afternoon, those inside may have noticed a little moisture as well. No, not a leaky roof, thank heavens, but rather a tear or two…
Review in Brief: KSO Offers Beautiful Bach; Coincidences Abound in Shostakovich
BY ALAN SHERROD As Maestro Aram Demirjian indicated in his preface of Sunday afternoon’s Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra concert, the programming for it had been done over a year in advance. So, it was both a grand and somber…
Confessions of a Bachophile: KSO’s Rachel Loseke and I-Pei Lin Take on Bach’s Double Violin Concerto
It is unlikely that any musician living today can claim that they were thrown into prison by their employer for petty affronts and for asking to be let out of a contract. Yet, that was the situation for one Johann…
Monday Arts Miscellany: Recitals, Galleries, Concerts to Wrap Up January
University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and Downtown Gallery Funny you should mention it — there is a theme here for the latest shows at both UT’s Ewing Gallery and the UT Downtown Gallery. Opening on Monday, January 24, at the…
Review: KSO Opens Its 2021-22 Chamber Classics Series
BY ALAN SHERROD Tchaikovsky By Any Other Name Would Sound As Sweet… The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra continued its season openers this past Sunday afternoon—this time with the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra and resident conductor James Fellenbaum starting off their…
KSO Chamber Classics On Sunday: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Something Sorta New
Knoxville Symphony Chamber Classics Series Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, conducted by James Fellenbaum Bijou Theater in Downtown Knoxville Sunday, October 3, 2:30 PM Jessie Montgomery: Strum Josef Suk: Serenade, Op. 6, E-Flat Major Theofanidis: Chamber Symphony No.1 (an arrangement of…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: October First Friday Sizzles With Openings
River & Rail Theatre Company – Pass Over Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu opened on Broadway in the first week of August, becoming the first new play to begin performances since the Covid-19 shutdown darkened theatres in New York City.…
Review: KSO Lures Its Live Audience Back With A Special “Symphonic Split”
BY ALAN SHERROD Apparently, the universe loves irony. That can be the only explanation for the wildly successful return on Sunday of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra to performances before live audiences. In a novel approach to conforming to pandemic…