If you can only make it to one of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series events this season, you should literally rush and purchase a ticket to this week’s performance at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Dec. 20: ‘Music for the Mountains’ To Benefit Victims of Fire
The Musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be performing a benefit concert for the victims of the recent wildfires in Sevier County, TN. The program will contain a variety of ensembles performing traditional chamber music as well as familiar…
KSO This Week: “Appalachian Spring”
This week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks titled “Appalachian Spring” features works by Charles Ives, William Grant Still, Jeff Midkiff, and Aaron Copland
Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville
Thursday and Friday, November 17 and 18, 7:30 PM
Review: KSO Brings Delectable Passions and Delicious Sublime Subversion
Review of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks concerts this weekend, concerts that featured Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and works by Rossini and Puccini.
Fresh Faces in the KSO-2016 Edition
Finally, those mysterious new faces on the stage for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra have been revealed. Four musicians won auditions in September and have been added to the KSO roster.
Review in brief: ‘Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends’ offers a delicious ‘Trout’
Franz Schubert, at his best, gives the listener a feeling of euphoria, an ineffable sensation of joy that falls somewhere between contentment and exhilaration. Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” (Quintet in A Major, D. 667), heard last evening on the Knoxville Symphony…
Review: KSO Chamber Orchestra, “Mozart and Haydn”
In case there are any readers who haven’t noticed, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series at the Bijou is right up there as my favorite music series in Knoxville. The reasons for this are pretty obvious. The clarity of…
This Weekend: KSO Chamber Orchestra Offers Mozart and Haydn
Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Classics Series, “Mozart and Haydn” Conductor: James Fellenbaum • Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro • Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 with pianist Kevin Class •…
In Knoxville Mercury: Review of KSO’s Season Opener
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, I review last weekend’s concerts by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra that opened the 2016-17 season. The concert was the debut of the KSO’s new music director and conductor, Aram Demirjian, and featured works by Rachmaninoff…
This Week: KSO Will Open Season with ‘Russian Passion’
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra presents the Masterworks debut of its new music director and conductor, Aram Demirjian, Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m., September 15 and 16, at the Tennessee Theatre. The concert features two works by Russian composers,…