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The MCR Interview

Nashville Rep’s ‘Christmas Carol’ (Interview with Micah-Shane Brewer, Artistic Director)

As part of the MCR Interview series journalist Grace Tipton asks Micah-Shane Brewer about his design for the new production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Nashville Rep this December.  

Music City News:

The River as Song: Prolific American and Chinese Songwriters Take the Stage at Analog at Hutton

A concert that features multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale and multiple national music award-winner Su Yang, from China is going to take place at the Analog at Hutton HotelRead More

Coming to TPAC:

Evan Hansen Lottery!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Described by the Los Angeles Times as a “cultural phenomenon,” Dear Evan Hansen makes its Nashville debut Sept. 10-15 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall. In advanceRead More

Traditions in Music City

Plaza Mariachi: Come for The Music, Stay for The Circus

Nolensville Pike, south of downtown Nashville, is known for being one of the most multicultural parts of town. Mexican taquerias are next door to Indian markets, Middle Eastern restaurants, andRead More

Traditions in Music City

Old Jams, New Jams, Blackberry Jams, and Blues

***This article is part of a new series, Traditions in Music City, which will focus on the many and diverse musical traditions happening around Nashville. Instead of a critical focus,Read More

Upcoming Performance

Chatterbird to Perform Improvisational Concert Using Footage from Nashville Metro Archives

Chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber ensemble, has announced further details for their next performance, Historic Nashville: A Celebration in Music and Film. The concert is free and open to the publicRead More

News

Nashville Opera to receive $25,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscalRead More

CD Review

Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos”, Guitar Concerto, and Starburst by The Nashville Symphony Orchestra

This 2019 live recording release from Naxos presents Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 commissioned for the Nashville Symphony’s Violins of Hope project. The Violins of Hope are a collection of stringedRead More

Spano and Trpčeski with the Nashville Symphony

On the first weekend in May the Nashville Symphony gave a concert featuring Michael Gandolfi’s The Garden of the Senses Suites, Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op.Read More

Wu Fei’s Hello Gold Mountain at Ingram Hall

We live in an age of immigration. Since 2016 over 5 million refugees have fled the warzone in Syria and nearly a million Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution in Myanmar.Read More

Nashville Symphony presents Kernis, Barber, and Beethoven

This past weekend The Nashville Symphony presented a true cornucopia of musical selections: a contemporary new work by Jay Kernis, a challenging and versatile cello concerto by Samuel Barber, andRead More