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After the Storm . . .

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  We’re not even halfway through the year and we’ve weathered a catastrophic tornado and are grappling with a global pandemic . . . and we’re not out of the woods yet.  As our communities gradually reopen and we learn to adjust to what is a hopefully temporary “new normal”, we are all confronted with uncertainty and apprehension about the future.  But, even as we adjust to quarantine, social distancing, facemasks, and the elbow bump rather than the handshake – we can still takeRead More

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Guerrero conducts the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic

Nashville’s music community is privileged to enjoy a resident symphony orchestra that routinely programs commissions, new voices, and 20th century masterworks.  But, the new music fans among us were awardedRead More

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Salute to Vienna: A New Tradition for Music City’s New Year

On January 3rd at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall, Nashville was treated to a glitzy, glamorous, and grand celebration of the New Year–Viennese style. With this concert, Nashville joins an eightRead More

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Handel’s Messiah at the Schermerhorn

On December 19-22 the Nashville Symphony gave its annual production of Georg Frederic Handel’s Messiah at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall, featuring soprano Mary Wilson, mezzo soprano Elizabeth Batton, tenor Garrett Sorenson, and bass Andrew Foster-Williams.  This holiday tradition,Read More

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An Artist’s Dream at the Schermerhorn

On the weekend of November 7-9 the Nashville Symphony produced a concert that featured Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (Op. 14), Felix Mendelssohn’s Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for PianoRead More

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the Subtle Similarities of Brahms, Dvořák, Adams and Ives

On the rainy weekend of October 25th, the Nashville Symphony performed a program that included works by Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, John Adams, and Charles Ives. The program reflected contemporariesRead More

Nashville Opera’s Madama Butterfly

On October 10, Nashville Opera opened its 2019 season with a delightful production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Andrew Jackson Hall in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. TheRead More

Gateway Chamber Orchestra Presents

Ultra-Romanticism at the Franklin Theater

Deceptively spacious and nestled between two storefronts on the aesthetic and quaint Main Street of historic Franklin Tennessee, the Franklin Theater welcomes a vast array of events from musical theaterRead More

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Shostakovich at the Nashville Symphony: This is Why Art Matters.

As I write this, and most likely as you read it, we are both secure in the tacit knowledge that despite the imperfection, inequality, and division present in our currentRead More

Nashville Ballet Presents

Romeo and Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity,  In fair Verona, where we lay our scene… So begins the most renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare. Two brought so close by love yetRead More

Essential Movement: Young People’s Chorus of New York City in Murfreesboro

I am a choral music nerd. It is a tradition I was raised in and the foundation of my education is as a musician. Most of all, choral music wasRead More