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Nashville Symphony Presents Beyond the Score®: Shostakovich’s Fourth – Is Music Dangerous?

The Nashville Symphony’s 2019/20 Classical Series resumes on September 27-28 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center with Beyond the Score®: Shostakovich’s Fourth – Is Music Dangerous?, a program centered around Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony that uniquely blends history and music for newcomers and aficionados alike. Developed and licensed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Beyond the Score® offers audiences a look into some of the classical repertoire’s most important composers and works through a multimedia experience that weaves together theater, music and video to tell the compelling stories that helped shape the music’s creation. The Nashville Symphony’s performances open with a presentation exploring Read More

Coming Event:

Popsicles & Pointillism from Intersection

Saturday, August 24th – 5:00-7:00pm The Clay Lady’s Campus 1416 Lebanon Pike Nashville, TN 37210 POPSICLES & POINTILLISM is a fundraiser for Intersection with live music, small bites, art creation,Read More

Coming September 20-22 at TPAC

Nashville Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

Choreography and direction by Paul Vasterling Fight direction and choreography by Tim Klotz Music by Sergei Prokofiev Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers return to 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 public Read More

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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 fiscal Read More

Carmina Burana: A Discussion with Steve Brosvik, COO of the Nashville Symphony

Last week, we had the opportunity to speak with Steve Brosvik, the COO of the Nashville Symphony, about the upcoming performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Not only does this Read 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 stringed Read More

The Silkroad Ensemble Makes a Stop in Music City

The Silkroad Ensemble has had a long history of radical cultural collaboration. In anticipation of their appearance in Nashville next Monday evening, the Music City Review had a chance to Read 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 civil Read More

Gil Shaham to perform Berg’s Violin Concerto in Nashville!

Of course they are advertising the HD Odyssey, but the Berg is so rarely heard! PROGRAM Smetana – The Moldau from Má Vlast Berg – Violin Concerto Cosmos – An HD Read More

Handel’s Messiah by the Nashville Symphony and Chorus: an Interview with Tucker Biddlecombe

On December 13th-16th Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct the Nashville Symphony and Chorus as they perform Georg Frideric Händel’s Oratorio The Messiah at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall. This is Chorus Read More