The Big Ears Festival has announced its line-up for next spring’s gathering, March 21-24, 2019. This unique and genre-defying music festival has been hailed by the world’s music press for …
Shaub and friends play dazzling concert
About 30 seconds into Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concertmaster William Shaub and principal violist Kathryn Gawne’s performance of Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s 1894 “Passacaglia in G Minor on theme of Handel,” …
Art is more than what you see
The Figurative Association Symposium opened this week at Arrowmont School in Gatlinburg. In its eighth year, the symposium began with a focus on the figure in ceramics. This year it …
Cellist Kosower sets off fireworks in Oak Ridge
It’s common practice for soloists with international careers to play from memory the music they perform with orchestras and in solo recitals.
But cellist Mark Kosower’s performances of both Antonio Vivaldi’s …
Choral Society sings Handel in Latin
The Knoxville Choral Society began a new era under its new artistic director and conductor, Dr. John Orr, with a concert at Central Bearden Baptist Church Friday night.
With a program …
Nero goes crazy in ‘Nero Monologues’
Fractured components of Roman Emperor Nero’s mind and psyche rampaged around the marbled L-shaped room at Candoro Marble Thursday night, in Marble City Opera’s production of “Nero Monologues,” the brilliant, …
DeBose exhibit at UT salutes law enforcement
A small but fascinating retrospective of artist and printmaker Marc Z. DeBose is currently showing at the gallery at the Frieson Black Cultural Center at UT. DeBose died in April …
Trillium plays ‘Trout’
The first time I heard Franz Schubert’s great “Piano Quintet in A Major,” Op. 114, D. 667, which everyone knows as the “Trout Quintet,” it just seemed so playful and …