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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

Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer Delight at the Blair School of Music

On Thursday evening, March 14, 2019, the Ingram Hall of Performing Arts at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music was filled with campus students, alumni, and other members of theRead More

Nature and the Nashville Symphony

On the weekend of March 8 and 9 the Nashville Symphony offered a pastoral program featuring Tobias Picker’s The Encantadas narrated by Picker himself and Gustav Mahler’s epic masterpiece DasRead More

Voices of Spring: featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Guests

On Sunday, March 3, the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Symphony Chorus, conducted by Tucker Biddlecombe and Lauren Ramey, hosted their annual Voices of Spring choral showcase, which features a numberRead More

Novel Noise: A Celebration of Tennessee

On Sunday, February 24, the Alias Ensemble performed the final concert of its three-part “Novel Noise” series. The series aims to provide the listener “unique and unusual sounds” and seems toRead More

Intersection presents its third ‘Upon these Shoulders’ event with Hannibal Lokumbe’s ‘Crucifixion Resurrection.’

On February 9, 2019 Intersection and Choral Arts Link presented its third Upon These Shoulders concert at Fisk University. This annual concert series seeks to highlight “the voices of civilRead More

Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux gives a voice and a story to the “Dark Lady,” Shakespeare’s mysterious love interest.

“I have walked Lucy’s walk all my life” narrates Caroline Randall Williams, author/poet of the book upon which the ballet is based. Williams’ spoken word in the ballet is Lucy’sRead More

Nashville Symphony Plays Smetana, Berg, and Dvořák, with Special Guest Gil Shaham

On Sunday January 13, 2019, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra gave the final of three concerts playing Bedřich Smetana’s The Moldau (or Vltava), Alban Berg’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, andRead More

A New Take on a Classic: The Nashville Ballet’s The Nutcracker

When it comes to a classic work such as Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, it can be difficult to make it feel fresh and new. Fortunately for Nashville audiences this holiday season,Read More

Rituals and a Serenade at the Schermerhorn

On November 16th and 17th the Nashville Symphony along with the Nashville Symphony Chorus, hosted visiting conductor Hans Graf for an interesting concert of late Romantic and Neo-classical works, includingRead More

Grace and Grit: 72 Steps

Voting and ballet don’t appear to have much in common, other than they are acts performed by humans; but the Nashville Ballet has set out to challenge that idea. 72Read More