Year: 2024

The Jazz Beat: July 2024

This Month’s Highlights Here you’ll find the shows and events this month that I think are the real standouts, unique events that you won’t find every day in the city.Read More

Come to the Cabaret at Studio Tenn

This is Studio Tenn’s first year in their new digs, the Turner Theater. Though a bit difficult to find within the maze of parking spaces, shops, and eateries, it wasRead More

FALL and chatterbird in Collaboration

A Bending of Its Own Kind: Aspiration

On Sunday May 19th, chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber ensemble, collaborated with aerial and contemporary ballet company FALL for their latest performance: A Bending of Its Own Kind: Aspiration. Founded inRead More

Mahler’s Tenth and the Problems with Completions

On May 16 to 18, 2024, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony produced, under the title Mahler’s Monumental Opus, a performance of the Deryck Cooke completion of Mahler’s 10thRead More

The Nashville Ballet Tells Its Tale with Five Short Stories

It was exciting, no thrilling, to watch the story of the Nashville Ballet unfold before our very eyes. The narrative vigor, imagination, and artistry in Five Short Stories boldly declaredRead More

Dum Spiro, Spero: SONUS Choir’s Tenth-Anniversary Concert

One of the things I love about being relatively still new to Nashville is discovering musical organizations unknown to me that call the Music City their home. On May 10,Read More

A review of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Nashville Repertory Theater closes its 39th annual season in a promising and open-ended tone with the staging of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to KeepRead More

From Our Far-flung Correspondents Series:

“Colorado Symphony – A Mile Above with Smyth, Prokofiev, and Brahms”

Performing at 5280 feet above sea level and giving at least 5281 reasons to fall in love with the Colorado Symphony, the music of Ethel Smyth, Sergei Prokofiev, and JohannesRead More

Frozen: Perfectly Fine

The film this musical is based on was such a hit in 2013 that anyone alive then or since then is at least aware of it, its characters, and canRead More

The MCR Interview

Fall Dance Director Rebekah Hampton Barger on Dance, Chronic Pain and Her Collaboration with Chatterbird

Rebekah Hampton Barger is the Founder and Artistic Director of Nashville-based aerial and contemporary ballet company Fall. She recently zoomed with MCR journalist Bethany Morgan regarding her work, and approachingRead More