A week of multiple arts choices

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

As January ends and February begins next week, multiple arts events will make choosing difficult.
Two free events in downtown churches will take place Tuesday, Jan. 30. At 7:30 p.m., the …

KSO is ‘hall of the living’

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

For at least the last half century there has been continuing discussion about how to prevent the classical music concert hall from being the exclusive domain of dead composers and …

Knoxville Symphony at the movies

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Sitting in the darkened Civic Auditorium Saturday night with more than 2,300 other movie/concert goers, watching Steven Spielberg’s 1981 movie “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” running …

MLK today plus a look ahead

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

The arts in Knoxville continue to offer lots to engage the mind and soul this week and next.
Martin Luther King Jr. will be recognized today (Jan. 15) at 6 p.m. …

Catastrophe at The Hive

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Everything started in the dark.
When the icy blue lights came up, a tall, 50s-ish male sculptural figure, wrapped in a generous black drape, with a shaggy moustache, his eyes closed, …

MLK Arts celebration day is Monday

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Carpetbag Theatre and the Celebration Choir, will present “A Night with the Arts; A Celebration Concert” in honor of Dr. Martin Luther …

KSO chamber musicians play sublime music

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

When KSO principal French horn, Jeffery Whaley, began to play Samuel Barber’s 1956 “Summer Music,” Op. 31, Barber’s only music for woodwind quintet, his sound was both pure and delicate, …