It’s very tempting to look for parallels between today’s climate of self-enrichment attitudes and the greed vs. civic consciousness that is at the center of French playwright Jean Giraudoux’s 1945 …
New sounds fill KSO Q season finale
When the Exposition Universelle of 1889 opened in Paris on May 6, Gustave Eiffel’s new iron tower was the star attraction. At 986 feet, it surpassed the 555-foot Washington Monument …
Sound to let your mind and spirit drift
The first thing that caught my attention was the picture of the four didjeridus, the exotic instrument partially made by termites burrowing through eucalyptus tree trunks in the Australian desert, …
UT Opera’s ‘Carmen’ a smoking success
If it weren’t for Native Americans, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” the world’s second most popular opera – a whopping 698 performances in the 2017-2018 season (Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” was No. …
Great performances create joyful noise at KSO concert
The European world was changing in 1824. There were momentous events, many of which had begun years earlier. Napoleon Bonaparte, in whom Ludwig van Beethoven had placed such hopes for …
Women get new life in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
In 1987, after 15 years of painstaking reconstruction of the original choreography, the Joffrey Ballet presented a new premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballet “The Rite of Spring” to enthralled …
Multiple ‘hitches’ fill Theatre Knoxville’s ‘One Slight Hitch’
Comedian and playwright Lewis Black’s play “One Slight Hitch,” Theatre Knoxville Downtown’s new play that’s inaugurating its new digs on the south end of Central Street, doesn’t even show up …
KSO in tune with simple delights of ‘Mary Poppins’
Even with Willie Nelson in town on Saturday night, a large audience showed up to see Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Disney’s 1964 movie “Mary Poppins” at the …