Music City Noir

Burleigh Spirituals Festival Scholarship Concert

On Monday April 14, a lovely gift was shared with a rather sparse, but welcoming audience. Since 2016, Patrick Dailey has been Nashville’s leading force in preserving and honoring theRead More

Companion Exhibitions at the Frist

David C. Driskell and Friends; Kindred Spirits: Creativity, Collaboration and Friendship

Most people, including the artists themselves, see visual arts as a solitary profession.  Dancers move in companies or corps, musicians play in bands or orchestras, actors perform in ensembles orRead More

At the Schermerhorn

SPECULATION, MANIFESTATION, AND A LITTLE CONTROVERSY: THE NSO Performs SCHUBERT, WILLIAMS, GOLIJOV, AND STRAUSS II

“Speculation, Manifestation, and a Little Controversy,” aptly describes the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s program on March 14th and 15th. First, Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” remains a subject of musicological speculation as toRead More

Requiem For Color: A Journey Through Lament and Joy

This program was nothing short of amazing. This body of work by Dr. Jeffery L. Ames showcases fluidity of visual and performing art. As walked into the Fisher Center forRead More

Touring Middle Tennessee:

When Marian Sang

Throughout the months of February and March, Nashville Opera’s production of “When Marian Sang: A Celebration of the Life of Marian Anderson” is touring throughout the Middle Tennessee area. ThisRead More

Mental Health: Healing Blues.

On Sunday, January 26th, I had the opportunity to attend the Mental Health: Healing Blues and Jazz event hosted by the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church atRead More

The Mountaintop

Celebrate Black History Month by seeing Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. The Tennessee playwright is the first Black valedictorian who graduated from Craigmont High School in Memphis before earning degrees fromRead More

In a return to Tennessee

Martha Graham Dance Company at James K. Polk Theater

In a 2024 article on Jamar Roberts for The Dance Enthusiast, actor/dancer, Toussaint Jeanlouis refers to “perseverance in spite of,” a trait psychologist C. Robert Cloninger considers “foundational in aiding,Read More

Intimacy at the Schermerhorn

Foote and Coleridge-Taylor Quintets

The Nashville Symphony presented a Chamber Music Series this season to provide more intimate and informal concerts for the audience in Music City. The musicians would speak between each piece,Read More

The Jazz Beat, November, 2024

This Month’s Highlights Here you’ll find the shows and events this month that I think are the real standouts, unique events that you won’t find every day in the city.Read More