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 …

Singing just for the glory of it

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

More than 40 people, from as far away as Saluda, S.C., Carrollton, Ga., Champaign, Ill., and Albuquerque, N.M., as well as Blount, Knox, Jefferson and Sevier counties, gathered at the …

KSO Aram Demirjian era off to a crisp start

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

If Thursday night’s opening concert of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 82nd season was any indication, the Aram Demirjian era as conductor and music director of the KSO is off to …

Appalachian autochthonous music coming

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

Two autochthonous music events, celebrating our Appalachian mountain heritage will take place over the next couple of weeks.
This weekend, Sept. 23 and 24, will be first annual Wears Valley Singing …

KSO opens season with tribute to Knoxville

Harold DuckettOur Town Arts

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra opens its 2017-2018 concert season Thursday and Friday evenings, Sept. 21-22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre, with a program called Knoxville Postcards.
“I knew we …