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 …
Powell Playhouse to stage variety, art shows
The Powell Playhouse has set “Dinner and a Show” for Thursday and Friday, Nov. 2-3, at Jubilee Banquet Facility. The variety show will be hosted by Phil Campbell. Tickets are …
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 …
Clarence Brown and Symphony team up for ‘Candide’
The Clarence Brown Theatre and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will collaborate on a production of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta “Candide” next year. The production is funded by a grant from the Roy …
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 …
Hot Jazz at the Bijou
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 …