Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Knoxville Postcards Aram Demirjian, conductor R.B. Morris, narrator Schachter: Overture to Knoxville (with UT Brass Ensemble) Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (with soprano Joélle Harvey) Aaron Copland: Suite from The Tender Land ( with Carson-Newman A Capella…
KSO Appoints William Shaub As Its Next Concertmaster
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of William Shaub as its next concertmaster, replacing Gabriel Lefkowitz who has taken the concertmaster position with the Louisville Orchestra following six years with the KSO. Shaub was one of two finalists…
There’s Still More To Come As 2016-17 Arts and Music Season Winds Down
If you are like me, the on-rushing signs of summer seem to bring a bit of sadness that the organized arts season is coming to an end. While I used to temper those feelings with remarks about just how much the…
A Big Weekend for Knoxville
Not particularly by design, there are those weekends in Knoxville when multiple diverse arts events converge on the same time period. This weekend, April 21-23, is one of those biggies. Music, theatre, and street fair festivals offer more opportunities for…
KSO on Sunday, April 2: Respighi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky
Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra: “Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings”
Sunday, April 2 at 2:30 PM
Bijou Theatre, Downtown Knoxville
Review in Brief: The Final “Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends”
After last weekend’s stellar final Masterworks concert appearance by outgoing concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz performing the Brahms Violin Concerto (see the review in the Knoxville Mercury), this week’s final Concertmaster Series events (“Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends”) may have seemed a bit anticlimactic…
Review in the Mercury: ‘Departing KSO Concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz Goes Out on a High Note’
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury and online: my review of last weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts that featured departing concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz in his final appearance with the orchestra.
KSO This Week – William Shaub’s Audition and Gabriel Lefkowitz’s Finale
This week’s Masterworks concerts by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra mark yet another transition for the organization. Just as the KSO’s Aram Demirjian begins the last three programs of his first season as music director and principal conductor, the KSO’s concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz ends his six year stint with the orchestra having taken up the comparable post with the Louisville Orchestra.
Five Reasons To Catch This Week’s KSO Concerts
For reasons that often border on the illogical, if not irrational, the winter concerts of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra with guest conductors are often passed up by regular concertgoers, yielding sparser crowds than usual. Is it the weather? That certainly…
Confessions of a Bachophile: Small Ensembles Keep the Love Alive
Confessions of a Bachophile is a continuation of an article series I began on Classical Journal several years ago. As personal history, it was the music of J.S. Bach that first captured my classical music imagination as a child. Today, while one…