Year: 2025

Nashville, Meet Chicago

In 1920’s Chicago, two murderers try to use their celebrity and femininity to win sympathy from the press, the public, and the justice system to avoid the death penalty. AboutRead More

Coming from the Music City Baroque

Preview: Baroque Crossroads: A Celebration of Italian, German, and French Styles

There is much that can be said about Baroque performance practices. During my attempts at playing Bach during my undergraduate, I came across multiple ways of playing eighth notes; theRead More

'Le Nozze di Figaro' at Vanderbilt

A New Take on an Opera Classic 

This past Thursday night, I had the privilege of seeing Vanderbilt Opera Theatre’s (VOT) production of Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettistRead More

Chicago comes to TPAC

In 2014, when I was a college sophomore, MTSU brought a vanful of music students to sit in the nosebleeds at TPAC’s Jackson Hall, and I saw my first-ever liveRead More

John Alvey, Album Release Show, Nashville Jazz Workshop, Saturday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.

It isn’t very often that the terms “restrained” and “tactful” signify strong praise for a jazz album, but that’s the overall impression that the aptly-titled “Loft Glow,” released late lastRead More

From Nashville's Contemporary Music Scene:

‘Strings and Spirits’ at Bastion

After attending the Strings and Spirits concert on the evening of January 15th at Bastion in downtown Nashville, it became all the clearer to me what misfortune had occurred inRead More

Ax, Mozart and Ravel at the Schermerhorn

On the snowy second weekend of 2025 the Nashville Symphony offered a concert consisting of two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Overture to Cosi fan tutte (1790), and theRead More

‘Turn It Up’ and ‘Boogieman’ from Cam Gallagher and The Tasty Soul

When their manager first sent me an email in October, looking for seasonal coverage of their Boogieman,”I thought that Cam Gallagher and The Tasty Soul were perhaps a little tooRead More

Peter Pan: Neverland in Nashville

Peter Pan has a more varied origin story than I had imagined. The Scottish author J. M. Barrie told stories of a flying baby to family friends with five boysRead More

The MCR Interview

Pianist Susan Yang and Her Upcoming Performance with the Nashville Symphony

Music City Review Journalist Brady Hammond speaks with Susan Yang on learning, teaching and playing the piano. Her strategies for practicing and the differences between performing a concerto, in aRead More