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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.  

The Lunar New Year with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Lunar New Year is the most important Chinese holiday, celebrated throughout the diaspora including in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and more. The Nashville Symphony—underRead More

The MCR Interview:

The African Company Presents Richard III: Interview with Director Lawrence James

Dr Lawrence James is directing a staged reading of The African Company Presents Richard III with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival at the Darkhorse Theatre February 22-24. This is a slightlyRead More

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & the Nashville Chamber Music Society at the Steinway Gallery

There’s something particularly compelling about Prokofiev’s F Minor Violin Sonata, Op. 80. It’s got this devastation and gloom about it that are impossible to miss and harder to shake. ProgramRead More

From the Annals of Activism

A Conversation on Art and Activism

Last week, an exhilarating yet casual, interactive community conversation around art and activism took place at Tennessee Justice Center, a nonprofit public interest law & advocacy firm serving families inRead More

OZ Arts Presents

Mazelfreten’s Rave Lucid

Ten years after its founding by Cano Ozgener, the 2023-2024 artistic season of OZ Arts welcomes a new era of Brave New Art to Nashville, paying homage to those “artists,Read More

From the Nashville Symphony

Clyne, Prokofiev and Mozart with Aspinall and Carissa at the Schermerhorn

On February 2 & 3, 2024 the Nashville Symphony performed their annual Lawrence S. Levine Memorial Concert which features the performance of an emerging artist. The program featured Anna Clyne’sRead More

de la ópera de nashville

La ópera necesitaba a Florencia y el realismo mágico necesitaba una ópera 

(English Version here: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ic) —¡Hace años que esperábamos este momento! Una llave de plata: la voz luminosa de Florencia Grimaldi reabrirá la cerradura dormida del teatro – Anunciaba un hombreRead More

From the Nashville Opera

The opera needed Florencia, and magical realism needed an opera 

(versión en español aquí: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ib) — For years we have waited for this moment! A silver key: Florencia Grimaldi’s dazzling voice will reopen the theater’s dormant lock – announced aRead More

From the Nashville Ballet

A Tale of Two Nutcrackers

The Nutcracker has been in the news lately. That’s unusual because this 19th-century masterpiece has been a staple of American holiday seasons for generations, remaining as part of the festiveRead More

New From Eric Nathan

Some Favored Nook

The 2023 release of Some Favored Nook is a project that brings together the talents of an impressive collective. Sonically weaving a web of cultural and societal connections, librettists MarkRead More