The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s 2017-2018 concert season gets off to a big start tonight at the Mill and Mine, 227 West Depot Ave., in downtown Knoxville, with a “Tribute to …
The art of dementia and mental illness
Jean Erwin Forster has been through a lot. A skilled nurse, she has survived acute myeloid leukemia and pseudomyxoma peritoni appendix cancer. She has also cared for her elder parents …
Chamber music rises as temperatures fall
Last Sunday evening in Oak Ridge, the chamber music season rushed in with Oak Ridge Civic Music Association‘s first program in ORCMA’s Coffee Concert Series. Violinist Sean Claire and cellist D. …
It’s Demirjian’s orchestra now
Aram Demirjian, the Knoxville Symphony’s new conductor and music director, is ready for his first real season. Although he was appointed to the position in May 2016, he already had …
‘Starcatcher’ dialogue flies like gun shot
Trying to describe Peter and the Starcatcher, the new play that just opened at Clarence Brown Theatre, is like trying to diagram a paragraph that’s made-up entirely of one-liners and …
Bach for free
Everybody likes free stuff. Everybody likes good stuff. But free and good don’t often happen together, especially when it comes to great music. But Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Oak …
Every villain needs a hero
Given his druthers, actor Charles Pasternak, who plays the villainous Black Stache in Clarence Brown Theatre’s MainStage production of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” beginning tomorrow night, would rather be playing …
It’s not just about you
Hello, I’m Harold Duckett. I’m delighted to be writing for KnoxTNToday. Most of what I write will be specifically about the arts, in its many forms. There will be stories, …