Year: 2020

How You Can Help:

It’s Your City, Give a Little Bit Back…

The Federal Stimulus is coming your way any day now. Far be it from me to act as if I know where best to spend your money, especially if youRead More

On the Internets

Live Music in the Time of COVID-19

As Shelter in Place orders have been enacted in the majority of the United States over the last few weeks, musicians and entertainers of all kinds have suddenly found theirRead More

At the Schermerhorn

A “Simple Gift” from the Nashville Symphony

The program presented by the Nashville Symphony this past weekend had been highlighted on my calendar for a few months now.  All works performed were less than one hundred yearsRead More

At Oz Arts Nashville

New Dialect Performs Poignant Double Feature

Six amorphous figures appear on a dark stage as music fades in. The figures split into pairs and slow dance as the lights go up. It’s the kind of slowRead More

the Nashville Symphony

Beethoven and Genius: an Interview with Maestro Guerrero

This weekend, February 20th through the 23rd, Nashville Symphony will present an all-Beethoven concert, including the ground-breaking Eroica symphony, the somewhat confusingly titled Leonore Overture No. 3 (one of severalRead More

Nashville Ballet

Blurring Ballet Lines: A Series of Moving Dialogues on Gender Identity and Stereotypes

Does movement imply gender? Do accepted norms impact freedom of self expression? Is creativity subconsciously limited by culturally-imposed stereotypes? These are the types of questions choreographers Carlos Pons Guerra, ErinRead More

At the Public Library

Intersection Celebrates Black History Month

I’ve been to a lot of concerts. I’ve seen Beethoven Symphonies and Handel Oratorios. I’ve laughed at Papageno in ​The Magic Flute ​ and held back tears as Mimi diesRead More

From that other Broadway:

My Fair Lady: The Perfect Musical Reboot at TPAC

In 1913, when George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was first premiered in Europe, the world was in turmoil. World War One was approaching and the labor movement in the United StatesRead More

At the Schermerhorn

The Conductor Saves the Day: Romantic Rhapsodies at the Schermerhorn

On the weekend of January 30 through February 1 the Nashville Symphony presented a concert titled Romantic Rhapsodies which featured Johannes Brahms Third Symphony (No. 3 in F major), GeorgeRead More

Nashville Opera

A Nightmare at the Opera – Britten’s Turn of the Screw

“A male figure introduces a curious story written in faded ink, in a woman’s hand” – a dry and concrete assertion begins the synopsis of Britten’s Turn of the Screw,Read More