Author: Joseph Morgan

Nuevo de Music City

Spanish American Culture 1500-1800: A Collaboration between Music City Baroque and the Frist

(Spanish Version Here: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2z1) In collaboration with the Frist Art Museum, and paired with the museum’s current exhibition Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800, the Music City Baroque isRead More

A Tenth Season from Chatterbird begins!

The Blossoming at Emerson Hall

On Thursday, November 30th, at Emerson Hall, Nashville’s experimental chamber ensemble Chatterbird inaugurated it’s tenth season with a concert titled The Blossoming, featuring Dream Chambers. My first exposure to thisRead More

The MCR Interview

Interview with Jess Chambers and Sonya Waters

On November 30th at Emerson Hall the Nashville-based chamber Ensemble Chatterbird will present ‘The Blossoming,’ a cross-collaborative concert with songwriter vocalist and instrumentalist known as Dream Chambers and solo synthRead More

A Tragic Ambush at the Noah Liff:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

As far back as the antiquity of Plato, Western culture has sought a rational explanation for the power that music has over us. As a rational pursuit this is pureRead More

The Nashville Symphony:

A Cold War Duel at the Schermerhorn

On November 2-4, 2023, the Nashville Symphony presented an intriguing concert titled “Corea’s Concerto + Romeo & Juliet” at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall. The soloist performing Chick Corea’s Concerto forRead More

An Annual Music City Event

The International Black Film Festival

Perhaps one of the greatest hidden treasures of Music City, the annual International Black Film Festival (IBFF), is held on the last weekend of September (the same weekend as theRead More

From Nashville Opera

Pagliacci’s Suffering and Guilt

On September 21 Nashville Opera presented a wonderful performance of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s verismo masterpiece Pagliacci at Jackson Hall in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. A reprise of the company’s stagingRead More

At the Schermerhorn

An Awful lot of Americana for Opening Night

The new season is here! The Nashville Symphony held their opening night gala on September 9th with a concert that featured four pieces of American music. Two were written, arranged,Read More

Coming to the Schermerhorn

Perry, Stravinsky and Ohlsson’s Brahms at the Schermerhorn

On September 15, the Nashville Symphony will present a concert featuring Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Julia Perry’s Short Piece for Orchestra and Johannes Brahms’ First Piano Concerto performed byRead More

From Vienna:

Sabine Devieilhe in Brahms Saal

On Friday, June 16th, Sabine Devieilhe performed a recital of lieder by Austro-German composers in the historic Brahms-Saal at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. The sixth concert of the LiederabendeRead More