Year: 2023

The Nashville Repertoiry in Polk Theater

August Wilson’s Fences

I was unfamiliar with this play before seeing the Nashville Repertory Theatre perform it on opening night in TPAC’s Polk Theater, and I deliberately avoided reading about it beforehand toRead More

Gateway Chamber Orchestra Presents

La Pasión: A Culturally Diverse Musical Performance of the Last Days of Christ

Following their sensational debut performances of Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s work, La Pasión según San Marcos [St. Mark Passion] to pandemic limited audiences, (covered by MCR here) the GCO willRead More

Freedom Fighters: DakhaBrakha at OZ Arts

It felt like rare musical events I’ve actually experienced—the opening tour date of Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense” in Berkeley, Parliament Funkadelic’s “Mothership Connection” tour stop in Chapel Hill, NewRead More

Americans in the Schermerhorn

This past weekend was one of the most exciting programs that I had seen at the Nashville Symphony in a while. And for good measure, this program encapsulated everything thatRead More

At TPAC's Polk Theater

August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ is coming to Nashville Repertory

“August Wilson is truly one of the greatest American playwrights, and Fences is his masterpiece,” says Executive Director Drew Ogle. “After having to cancel our originally planned production due to the pandemic,Read More

At TPAC

The Nashville Ballet Publishes an Anthology of Nashville History

Before I returned home to Middle Tennessee, I binged ballet in New York and Houston, two American cities with world-class ballet companies. Having left decades ago when classical and modernRead More

Winter Shakespeare Presents:

Love’s Labor’s Lost: An Approachable, Silly Night

Most of us have read or seen Shakespeare’s big tragedies and comedies, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and so on. I was unfamiliar with Love’sRead More

From the Nashville Symphony

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn On February 3 & 4 the Nashville Symphony gave a rather eclectic and unconventionally exquisite concert billed as a “Latin Fiesta!” with a groupRead More

The MCR Interview

Interview with Giancarlo Guerrero

Daniel Krenz: Good afternoon, it’s a pleasure to speak with you today! I’m really looking forward to this concert. It seems to be a perfect picture of what the NashvilleRead More

Chamber Music at the Schermerhorn:

The Elliston Trio plays Haydn and Ravel

On a cold February night, the Elliston Trio played a program of Franz Joseph Haydn and Maurice Ravel to an intimate audience at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Founded in 2016Read More