The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra offers a Valentine’s Evening concert featuring music by John Williams, Florence Price, Ennio Morricone, and Ottorino Respighi. James Fellenbaum conducts. • University of Tennessee, Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building • Saturday evening,…
Review: KSO Chamber Classics Warm Up a Cold Day with Elgar, Bach, and Haydn
BY ALAN SHERROD It is a regular theme—one can hardly talk about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s January concerts without mentioning the possibility of weather complications. That was the case for this past Sunday’s Chamber Classics concert at the Bijou,…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra Opens 2025-26 Season With Rossini and Beethoven
The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra, a part of UT’s Natalie L. Haslam College of Music, opens its concert season this Sunday afternoon, September 14, at 4:00 PM in the Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building on the UT…
On Saturday: UT Symphony Rolls Out German Symphonic Masterpieces
Departing from its usual Sunday afternoon time slot, the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra is ready for prime time this week. The UTSO, under conductor James Fellenbaum, will be showing its orchestral muscles on Saturday evening, February 15, in the…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Celebrates 100th Anniversary of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ With Pianist Sean Chen
The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with its October concert featuring pianist Sean Chen. Chen was a Van Cliburn 2013 medalist and appeared with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in…
Review Bits: UT Symphony Orchestra Opens the Season with “Italian” Flavor
There was a time in Knoxville’s music past when we treated the accomplishments of the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum as news. Sunday’s season opening concert program of the UTSO, which had as…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra Begins 2024-25 Season with Italian Flavor
“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…
Review: KSO’s Present and Future Meet in a Celebration of Musicianship and the Mahler Fourth
The title given to this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts was “The Heavenly Life: Mahler Symphony No. 4.” A less poetic, but perhaps equally accurate title might have been “Musicianship: Now and in the Future.”
On Sunday: KSO’s Chamber Classics Features Flutist Devan Jaquez
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series concert on Sunday afternoon at the Bijou Theatre will feature KSO Principal Flute Devan Jaquez in Malcolm Arnold’s Flute Concerto No. 1. James Fellenbaum will conduct.
UT Symphony Orchestra Wins The American Prize in Orchestral Performance For 2023
The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra has been named the 2023 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance for larger college/university programs. The UTSO, under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum, is a part of the UT College of…