Classical Reviews

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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

The Gateway Chamber Orchestra Presents:

Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

On April 23, the Gateway Chamber Orchestra presented Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony (No. 2, 1894) in the Mabry Concert Hall at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville. Mahler’s “Resurrection” is aRead More

Live in Franklin:

LAGQ Concert at Franklin Theatre

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet brought a warmth to Franklin Theatre on an April night of near freezing temperatures at show time. The intimacy in which the four guitarists blendRead More

From Nashville Opera

Rigoletto Noir…Finally!

Over the weekend, Nashville Opera finally managed to pull off their long-awaited Rigoletto Noir, complete with a three-minute, film-noir-inspired cinematic short created by Nashville natives Chris Hollo and Mark MosrieRead More

The Nashville Symphony plays Coleridge-Taylor, Debussy, and Mendelssohn

Nature’s Passion on Land and Sea

On Sunday, April 10 2022 at 2 pm in the Schermerhorn Center, the Nashville Symphony continued its “Classical Series” with four works, two familiar and two relatively unknown in theRead More

The Nashville Symphony at the Schermerhorn

Kip Winger’s Symphony No. 1 and the Semiotics of the Musical Sublime

This past weekend, the Nashville Symphony presented its “Evening of Firsts,” a concert program featuring the premieres of works by Kip Winger, songwriter and rock musician turned composer, and BradRead More

New from First Hand Records

Sarah Cahill’s The Future is Female Volume 1: In Nature.

Pianist Sarah Cahill is no stranger to tackling specific themes for her hefty piano-based output. With past projects revolving around piano music on the subject of peace (A Sweeter Music),Read More

Catalyst Quartet Releases UNCOVERED Vol. 2

Counterpoint: Florence Price and Marketing the Classical Canon

Virtually every piece of public-facing writing on Florence Price in the last five years or so begins at the same place—St. Anne, Illinois, 2009: a long-since-abandoned house that Price hadRead More

Nashville Opera

Nashville Opera Kicks off its 2022 Season with ‘Favorite Son’

At the Noah Liff Opera Center, each time one enters, who knows what the stage and atmosphere will be. For the recent production of Marcus Hummon’s “Favorite Son,” an oldRead More

The Nashville Symphony

The Band is Back Together! Dvořák, Mozart and Suppé at the Schermerhorn

On Saturday, January 8th the Nashville Symphony returned to the Schermerhorn stage as a complete ensemble to give a rather excellent concert featuring Franz von Suppé’s Poet and Peasant Overture,Read More

The Nashville Symphony

An Evening of Americana and Itzhak Perlman’s Beethoven

Last Saturday night, December 11, 2021, the Nashville Symphony celebrated its 75th year with an exquisite fundraising concert featuring, in the Nashville tradition, three outstanding works of living composers pairedRead More