Year: 2020

Virtual Release

Spektral Quartet Touts New Listening Experience

This week Spektral Quartet, Chicago’s multi-grammy nominated ensemble, releases their fourth full length studio album: Experiments in Living. Taking its namesake from a quote by utilitarian philosopher John Stuart MillRead More

New Release from Iceland

Gyða Valtýsdóttir (Epicycle II), release date August 28th on DiaMond/Sono Luminus

Gyða Valtýsdóttir first appeared on the scene as a member of the group múm, an experimental electronic Icelandic group, whose second album, Finally We Are No One (2002) reached asRead More

Nashville Symphony's release

The Second Summer Release from the Nashville Symphony

Three weeks after cancelling the 20/21 season, the Nashville Symphony released a new recording featuring the music of the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Christopher Rouse. This recording, theRead More

Hope from the Nashville Opera

Can You Imagine a Beach-Party Themed Cinderella Next June? Nashville Opera can!

In the most wonderful sense of optimism and a little more than a decent dose of stubbornness, Nashville Opera has released their schedule for next season, a celebration of theirRead More

More than half of businesses that closed during the pandemic won’t reopen

About 60% of businesses that have closed during the coronavirus pandemic will never reopen, and restaurants have suffered the most, according to new data from Yelp.

A New Recording from the Nashville Symphony:

Aaron Jay Kernis’ Color Wheel and 4th Symphony, “Chromelodeon”

The Nashville Symphony just released it’s newest recording on Naxos’s American Classics series. Featuring two works by Pulitzer, Grammy and Grawemeyer Award winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, Color Wheel (2001)Read More

At the OZ Arts Website:

Burdens from a Distance

Carrying burdens: a universally accepted part of life and timely theme as the world shares a collective burden. Over the course of three years, speaking to hundreds of people fromRead More

The Nashville Symphony via Youtube:

After the Storm . . .

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  We’re not even halfway through the year and we’ve weathered a catastrophic tornadoRead More

From the Pedestrian Bridge:

Chatterbird Performs Honstein

Down Baby Down by New York composer Robert Honstein (b. 1980) is a piece for percussion quartet in six movements. One imagines that the composition process started with the composerRead More

A Virtual Release

Timbre Cierpke Debuts Digital Release ‘Gullfoss’

The subject of the arts during quarantine has been written about ad nauseam. I’ve found that these articles seldomly tackle the art or music they are tasked with, but insteadRead More