Last night’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concert at the Tennessee Theatre was worth noting for multiple reasons, one of which was, for the first time in my memory, going back more …
Free music for the soul Sunday afternoon
Three free music events in Knoxville on Sunday are worth absorbing.
At 4 p.m., at the Alumni Auditorium at UT, the University of Tennessee Orchestra will perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. …
Barry Spann’s work evolves full circle
There’s a very interesting exhibition of the paintings by Knoxville-based artist Barry Spann at the District Gallery in Bearden. It’s the first local exhibition in more than a decade.
Those who …
Great Beatles’ doesn’t pop at KSO Pops
I enjoyed putting in the work preparing for the Knoxville Symphony Pops concert, featuring the Classical Mystery Tour’s 50th anniversary celebration of The Beatles’ groundbreaking album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts …
It takes work to provide all the play at the KSO
Correction: The Knoxville Symphony is engaged in another busy week. Tonight, at the Tennessee Theatre is the first of this season’s KSO Pops concerts. Next Thursday and Friday, Oct. 19 …
The dawn of ‘personal devices’
Friday and Saturday nights at the Square Room on Market Square, Marble City Opera presented two short works: Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Telephone” and Francis Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine,” which …
Music must have a soul
I’ve never liked the word “dialogue” used as a verb referring to the act of having a conversation. Too much like a script. Too predictable. Too calculated. Maybe a dryness …
Opera on the verge
Could it be possible for Knoxville to have its own contemporary opera festival, say along the lines of Big Ears, the internationally known contemporary music festival created by Knoxville’s own …