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 …
KSO’s new concertmaster begins series Wednesday
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s very popular Concertmaster Series of chamber music concerts get underway this Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair …
Jazz times two this week
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
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
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 …
‘Three Sisters:’ reflections on the empty life
When parents die, it isn’t easy realizing that nobody wants the stuff that helped define their remembered lives. No one wants their mother’s exquisite silver service or set of lovely …
Humor and weirdness open Chamber Classics Series
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
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 …