Holiday concert Friday in Oak Ridge

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The Oak Ridge Civic Music Association presents its holiday season concert this Friday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 1350 Oak Ridge Turnpike, in Oak …

‘Hallelujah’ at chamber concert

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Knoxville Symphony resident conductor James Fellenbaum, conducting the KSO Chamber Orchestra with the Webb School of Knoxville Chamber Singers as guests performers, was comfortable working with both the professional musicians …

Scrooge as metaphor

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In 1843, when Charles Dickens self-published “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas,” Tennessee state politician Andrew Johnson was elected to the House of Representatives in Congress, …

Black Friday antidotes

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Need post-Thanksgiving binge recovery and Black Friday antidote?
The best place to start would be the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Classics “Classical Christmas” concert 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26, at the Bijou …

A Christmas Carol ushers in Christmas

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Pinning down just what Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is really about and what inspired it may not be as straight-forward as one might think.
Figuring out just who Ebenezer Scrooge …

Poetry, death and beauty at KSO concert

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No one will think of guest soloist Paul Huang, who performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra at the Tennessee Theatre Thursday night as just another showman with a great violin.
Huang …

Big Ears ’18 sets lineup

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Tickets for the 2018 Big Ears Festival, set for Thursday-Sunday, March 22-25, go on sale Friday, Nov. 3.
Since Big Ears founding by Knoxville’s own Ashley Capps in 2009, Big Ears …