Author: Joseph Morgan

Song of the North: a Thousand-Year-Old Tale of Empowerment at Oz Arts

The longest epic poem created by a single author, Shahnameh, the Epic of the Persian Kings, tells the history of pre-Islamic Persia in 62 stories that amass 50,000 rhyming couplets.Read More

From the Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Hamlet

It seems to me that the primary difficulty, or “rub” in producing Hamlet, perhaps the most well-known play that Shakespeare wrote, and arguably the greatest play ever written (depending, ofRead More

From Our Far-flung Correspondents Series:

Yuja Wang, Andris Nelsons and the BSO Tackle the Turangalîla-Symphonie

On the weekend of April 12-13 I was able to attend a musicology conference on music criticism at one of those fancy schools just outside of Boston, MA. During myRead More

At the Schermerhorn

Shostakovich Framed by Beethoven!

On April 5 & 6 the Nashville Symphony presented Beethoven and Shostakovich, a rather odd concert that framed Dmitri Shostakovich’s first Cello Concerto, played by Zuill Bailey, with Ludwig vanRead More

From Intersection

A Lenten Concert from Intersection

On Saturday, March 23, Nashville’s contemporary music ensemble Intersection presented a concert titled Thin Places at the Trinity Presbyterian Church. The title of the program refers to “places described inRead More

The Nashville Ballet’s got an Attitude

On February 9 – 11 Nashville Ballet held its annual program Attitude, a program “known for its groundbreaking choreography, original music, and cross-disciplinary collaborations” that often push the limits onRead More

From the Nashville Symphony

Clyne, Prokofiev and Mozart with Aspinall and Carissa at the Schermerhorn

On February 2 & 3, 2024 the Nashville Symphony performed their annual Lawrence S. Levine Memorial Concert which features the performance of an emerging artist. The program featured Anna Clyne’sRead More

The Cher Show at TPAC

On the freezing nights of January 19th and 20th, 2024, and despite its own frigid theater, TPAC managed to warm up Nashville with a delightful production of The Cher Show,Read More

Mussorgsky, Corigliano and Ravel at the Schermerhorn

On January 5th, 2024, the Nashville Symphony presented Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Maurice Ravel’s Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, and John Corigliano’s song cycle One Sweet Morning sung byRead More

Nuevo de Music City

Cultura hispanoamericana 1500-1800: una colaboración entre la Music City Baroque y la Frist

(English Version Here: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2yB) En colaboración con el Frist Art Museum, y junto con la exposición actual del museo Arte e Imaginación en la América Española, 1500-1800, the Music CityRead More