“Italian” is the key word for Sunday afternoon (September 15) as the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra begins its 2024-25 season. UTSO music director and conductor James Fellenbaum will lead the orchestra in a program of works that were written…
Recital Report: Forrest Wentzel’s ‘Sanctuary Walls’ – Poetry by Brian Griffin
A collaboration between a composer and an author/poet can take many forms and involve varying degrees of artistic connection. However, when the subject matter of a very successful collaboration flows from a personally experienced tragedy, it is assumed that those…
Miscellany: More Things To Catch in October
As the autumn leaves drift by the window, one realizes that October is now half way toward Halloween with a packed schedule of music and arts happenings still to come in Knoxville. Knoxville Opera — Verdi’s Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi’s final…
NY Phil Concertmaster Huang to Perform in Knoxville With UT Symphony
BY DIANA SALESKY The New York Philharmonic is, inarguably, one of the finest orchestras in the world. Therefore, it stands to reason that its Concertmaster position would be occupied by one of the finest violinists in the world. And…