Hot Jazz at the Bijou

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

A student evaluated UT course MUC0125 taught by Vance Thompson, director of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. It read: “8 Quizzes that are Tests – 10 percent of your grade each …

Jazz times two this week

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra takes the stages downtown twice this week.
Tonight at the Bijou Theatre, the KJO is joined by John Beasley for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of …

Chamber Orchestra has fun at opening concert

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Baritone Scott Bearden, who has sung in several Knoxville Opera productions, earned a well-deserved “Bravo!” for his multiple-characters role, performed as the chansonnier, in H. K. Gruber’s 1977 “Frankenstein!! A …

Trillium presents music for a new age

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Just to get this straight to start with, I heard a lovely concert by locally-based Trillium, a trio of first-rate musicians: pianist Robert Bonham, violinist Alison Maerker Garner and cellist …

Humor and weirdness open Chamber Classics Series

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Classics opens its concert season at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Oct. 1, with a not-so-classic program that features toy instruments and unconventional contraptions turned into music-makers, in …

Chamber music thrives in the city

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Two Knoxville audiences were treated to two excellent chamber music programs yesterday.
The first was the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Q Series at the Square Room on Market Square, featuring the KSO’s …