Author: Benjamin Gates

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

New in the Music City:

Blueprint & Jacob Jezioro at the Axiom Art Gallery

Nobody would blame you for missing the Axiom Art Gallery. Tucked away between Third Man Records and the Plaza art supplies store, the only signage in front of the buildingRead More

The Nashville Symphony at the Schermerhorn

Kip Winger’s Symphony No. 1 and the Semiotics of the Musical Sublime

This past weekend, the Nashville Symphony presented its “Evening of Firsts,” a concert program featuring the premieres of works by Kip Winger, songwriter and rock musician turned composer, and BradRead More

Catalyst Quartet Releases UNCOVERED Vol. 2

Counterpoint: Florence Price and Marketing the Classical Canon

Virtually every piece of public-facing writing on Florence Price in the last five years or so begins at the same place—St. Anne, Illinois, 2009: a long-since-abandoned house that Price hadRead More

New from Deutsche Grammophon

Live Concerts and Musical Transcendence in Deutsche Grammophon’s ‘Live from Salzburg’

In Deutsche Grammophon’s upcoming release Live from Salzburg, which features astounding recordings of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Gustav Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, the power and range of Elīna Garanča’s voiceRead More

At the Nashville Symphony

Beethoven, Poulenc, and Stravinsky: Sounding Together at the Schermerhorn

The Nashville Symphony is back! Or rather it’s on its way back. The season may now be in full-swing, but as we all continue to navigate the realities of aRead More