The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts this week feature guest conductor Eckart Preu in works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Higdon, and Richard Strauss. Alon Goldstein will be the pianist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor.
Review in the Knoxville Mercury: Storm Fizzles, Demirjian and KSO Dazzles
My review of last week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts featuring guest conductor Aram Demirjian and violinist Philippe Quint can be found in this week’s Knoxville Mercury. That concert featured works by John Adams, Ligeti, Bruch, and Beethoven.
Sunday at the Bijou: The Principal Quartet Explores Schubert, Prokofiev, and Brahms
While the growth of Knoxville’s classical music scene has been quietly satisfying for audiences, the growth of chamber music within that scene in the last five or six years has been nothing short of phenomenal. Providing the original foundation for…
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: KSO and Knoxville Chamber Chorale Make a Case for December Music
It was probably four or five years ago when I began mentioning in my columns what seemed to be a strange scarcity of professional classical music performances in Knoxville during the month of December, a month I believed should be…
KSO This Week: Guest Conductor “Z” Kuwahara and Pianist Stewart Goodyear
This week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts will feature the second of six guest conductors auditioning for the vacant music director position—Shizuo “Z” Kuwahara. I continue to suggest that every Knoxville classical music listener catch all of the candidate concerts…
Review: KSO’s ‘Mozart and More’ at the Bijou
If you’ve never been to a classical music concert at Knoxville’s Bijou Theatre, then any mention of the hall’s acoustic subtlety is virtually meaningless—and you probably aren’t reading this anyway. However, audiences that frequent the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Sunday afternoon…
Sunday at the Bijou: Mozart and More
“Mozart and More” — Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra Sunday, November 1, 2:30 p.m. Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville Info/tickets I had the opportunity recently to reflect on the idea of a…
KSO This Week: Guest Maestro Marcelo Lehninger — Shostakovich, Respighi, Ravel
This week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks pair of concerts begins the monthly “audition” series in the orchestra’s music director selection process. This month’s candidate is Marcelo Lehninger who most recently was associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Lehninger’s program includes:…
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…