Composer Jennifer Higdon returns to Knoxville this weekend and next week for a composer-in-residence stint with the University of Tennessee School of Music.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend the concert events listed below. There is no admission charge for any of them.
It’s been a long, hot summer, but Arts Knoxville’s involuntary hiatus is now—thankfully—at an end. The University of Tennessee is back in session and the UT School of Music’s recital programs are warming up in the wings. The first faculty and guest artist recital of the season features pianist Eunsuk Jung and local colleagues in works by Glinka and Schubert.
The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre brings a production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera The Consul to the Bijou Theatre for four performances, Friday thru Sunday. For details, see my preview in this week’s Knoxville Mercury. Stage director: James Marvel…
Without doubt, the very things that make Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) compelling theatre are also the things that can become mind-boggling difficulties in modern productions. Its allegorical themes of enlightenment vs. ignorance, and the basic good vs. evil…
The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre is once again downtown at the Bijou Theatre, this time for a production of Mozart’s final opera, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). The production, directed by James Marvel with musical direction by Kevin Class,…
By Saturday evening, Friday’s treacherous ice-covered snow had turned to cold rain and messy, deep slush. However, the spectre of soggy shoes and dripping overcoats did not persuade the fans of the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under conductor James Fellenbaum to stay…
Steve Smith, music writer and currently the Assistant Arts Editor at the Boston Globe, wrote in the New York Times in 2011: “New York is unquestionably an international capital of the arts, but it can also be a frustrating backwater…
The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre presents the world premiere of Larry Delinger’s Medea this weekend in four performances at the Relix Variety Theatre. Delinger’s Medea features a libretto by Douglas Langworthy, who translated and adapted the classic story from…
American contemporary composers must wage constant battles–battles for recognition, for work, and for performances of their work. Occasionally, though, the planets align for both composer and audience as they are doing with the UT School of Music’s DELINGERFEST, performances and activities…
In September, the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra opened its 2014-15 season with a concert titled “España!”, an event I previewed briefly in an issue of Metro Pulse. At the time, I received very little information on the concert from…