Author: Joseph Morgan

Art between the Avenues at the Arcade

At the historic Arcade in Downtown Nashville, Arcade Arts is hosting their collaborative art event Art Between the Avenues. We attended the launch party on June 20th (great popsicles!) andRead More

The Sphinx Virtuosos at the Schermerhorn on July 9

(Versión en español aquí) In 1997 violinist Aaron P. Dworkin sought to “identify, empower, and support talented young artists and prepare them for professional careers in classical music.” In theRead More

Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue

Oz Arts’ season closer, Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue for 12 dancers, is a remarkable composition. In two parts, it juxtaposes Sergeï Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with electronic music of JamieRead More

Nashville Symphony Ends its Season

Romanticism, Expressionism and Primitivism at the Schermerhorn

From May 30 to June 2 the Nashville Symphony ended its season with a presentation of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in a rather strange pairing with two rarely heard songRead 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

Oz Arts’ Brave New Works Lab ’24

In recent years the growth of the Music City has been tremendous, and with this influx of population our arts organizations have stepped up to the plate to bring headliningRead More

New in the Music City

Chamber Music City’s Spring Concert: ars pro nobis

On Thursday May 2, Chamber Music City, a new chamber music organization helmed by Percussionist Ji Hye Jung, gave its premier production at the chic Ruby Nashville venue in theRead More

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