Roomful of Teeth coming to Big Ears

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

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

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

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

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

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 …

Nero goes crazy in ‘Nero Monologues’

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

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, …

Trillium plays ‘Trout’

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

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 …