Month: April 2025

The Nashville Rep

Sunday in the Park with George

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George is aRead More

Coming to Nashville

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare geneticRead More

At the Darkhorse Theater

A Tiny Beautiful Play

I hadn’t heard of the book Tiny Beautiful Things or its TV and stage adaptations before Women in Theatre Nashville announced this show. I had, however, heard of Cheryl Strayed’sRead More

Get to Know the GCO, part one:

The Gateway Chamber Orchestra Proves themselves to be Gamers at the Customs House Museum!

On March 30, a small crowd gathered at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville. At 3:00 pm, the lights dimmed and the sound of a string quartet could be heardRead More

Spiritual Festival Concert to Honor TSU Prof. Darryl Nettles and Lorenzo Washington, founder of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum.

From the event’s press release: On April 14th, the Ninth Annual Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival Scholarship Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Laura Turner Concert HallRead More

From the Nashville Chamber Music Society

Underwood and Friends Take Us to Church

Titus Underwood & Friends presented a unique opportunity for me as a brass musician to expand my horizons: Can I, a lowly trumpet player, ‘neath the booming vaults of aRead More

Tower, Williams and Rachmaninoff at the Schermerhorn

This past weekend, our Nashville Symphony put on a splendid performance featuring pieces of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Joan Tower’s Tambor, John Williams’ Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra,Read More

The Jazz Beat — April 2025

This Month’s Highlights Here are the performances this month that I have picked out as really special, ones you won’t be able to catch any day of the week. TheyRead More