Year: 2022

At TPAC's Jackson Hall

Nashville Opera’s Remarkable La Bohème

On September 22 and 24 Nashville Opera opened its 2022-2023 season with a remarkable production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. Puccini’s opera is a deeply tragic work and a centerpieceRead More

From Franklin:

Summer Shakespeare Festival 2022

This summer the Nashville Shakespeare Festival performed Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s last plays. I won’t go much into the plot of the play in this review; a quick google searchRead More

Opening Night for the Nashville Symphony: A Second Resurrection for Music City

On Saturday, September 10 the Nashville Symphony held their opening night for the 2022-23 season with a performance of Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection.” PerhapsRead More

5th Annual Kindling Arts Festival

Across the last four days of July and featuring 160 artists in 19 projects at 5 different venues the annual Kindling Arts Festival, Nashville’s “radically unique arts incubator,” continued itsRead More

The MCR Interview:

Maestro Guerrero Discusses the New Season (and much else…)

This summer Benjamin Gates, writer for the Music City Review, had the opportunity to interview NSO Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero about the state of the orchestra and music in theRead More

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New from New Focus Recordings:

Pathos Trio – When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano

The Album  When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano consists of five tracks, each of which is a collaboration with a different composer. The composers were encouragedRead More

Nashville Jazz Workshop Presents Jazz on the Move

The Jazz World’s Precious Metal: Horace Silver

The five jazz pros were mined from differing ores—cool jazz, smooth jazz, bebop, rock, blues—but together they gradually produced a fine alloy that honored the legacy of Horace Silver, pianistRead More

A Home for Jazz in the Music City:

Welcome to the Nashville Jazz Workshop

Lori Mechem comes from a small town in Indiana, but there’s no midwestern twang in her voice.  And there’s no snarky vibe from her time in LA or Southern drawlRead More

One of the world’s first spatial neo-classical concept-albums review:

Maison Melody AM/PM by Stephen Emmer

Stephen Emmer; Dutch composer, arranger, and artist, invites listeners to a unique listening experience with his recent spatial neo-classical album entitled, Maison Melody  AM:PM. The conceptual album includes diegetic soundsRead More