When KSO principal French horn, Jeffery Whaley, began to play Samuel Barber’s 1956 “Summer Music,” Op. 31, Barber’s only music for woodwind quintet, his sound was both pure and delicate, …
KSO Clayton Holiday Concert is fast-paced with huge cast
More than 250 singers and instrumental musicians filled the Civic Auditorium Friday evening for the 31st edition of the Knoxville Symphony Clayton Holiday Concert.
All accounted for themselves well. One (sorry, …
KSO’s Q Series is quartet excellence
Frigid temperatures did not keep a near-sold-out crowd from the Knoxville Symphony’s Q Series concert at noon Tuesday at the Square Room, the performance space in back of Café 4 …
Classical chamber music, Santa, Kinky Boots and more this week
This is a busy week for the Knoxville Symphony, with the Q series concert at the Square Room, Wednesday, Dec. 13, at noon; four Clayton Holiday Concerts at the Civic …
Black Friday antidotes
Need post-Thanksgiving binge recovery and Black Friday antidote?
The best place to start would be the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Classics “Classical Christmas” concert 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26, at the Bijou …
Poetry, death and beauty at KSO concert
No one will think of guest soloist Paul Huang, who performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra at the Tennessee Theatre Thursday night as just another showman with a great violin.
Huang …
Sexuality and sensuality at the KSO
Last night’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concert at the Tennessee Theatre was worth noting for multiple reasons, one of which was, for the first time in my memory, going back more …
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 …