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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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5th Annual Kindling Arts Festival

Across the last four days of July and featuring 160 artists in 19 projects at 5 different venues the annual Kindling Arts Festival, Nashville’s “radically unique arts incubator,” continued its tradition of supporting local Nashville area artists. Founded in 2018, the festival has increasingly presented the tough and gritty yet beautiful and unique character of independent artistic expression in the Music City and this year’s event was no different. I was able to attend only two events this year, POWER: ON at OzArts on Saturday night and BLUR: AN AERIAL DANCE SHOWCASE on Sunday. POWER: ON featured five dance worksRead More
  • Maestro Guerrero Discusses the New Season (and much else…)

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    Maestro Guerrero Discusses the New Season (and much else…)
  • Pathos Trio – When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano

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    Pathos Trio – When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano
  • Maison Melody AM/PM by Stephen Emmer

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    Maison Melody AM/PM by Stephen Emmer
  • Malpaso, Fusion of Modern Dance and Cuban Innovation: No Missteps Here

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    Malpaso, Fusion of Modern Dance and Cuban Innovation: No Missteps Here
  • LAGQ Concert at Franklin Theatre

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    LAGQ Concert at Franklin Theatre

The MCR Interview:

Maestro Guerrero Discusses the New Season (and much else…)

This summer Benjamin Gates, writer for the Music City Review, had the opportunity to interview NSO Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero about the state of theRead More

Nashville Jazz Workshop Presents Jazz on the Move

The Jazz World’s Precious Metal: Horace Silver

The five jazz pros were mined from differing ores—cool jazz, smooth jazz, bebop, rock, blues—but together they gradually produced a fine alloy that honored theRead More

A Home for Jazz in the Music City:

Welcome to the Nashville Jazz Workshop

Lori Mechem comes from a small town in Indiana, but there’s no midwestern twang in her voice.  And there’s no snarky vibe from her timeRead More

Nashville Opera Presents

Das Rheingold at Belmont

On May 6th, Nashville Opera presented Richard Wagner’s epic music drama Das Rheingold in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Belmont University. ARead More

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Classical Reviews

Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

On April 23, the Gateway Chamber Orchestra presented Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony (No. 2, 1894)Read More

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  • LAGQ Concert at Franklin Theatre

  • Rigoletto Noir…Finally!

  • Nature’s Passion on Land and Sea

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

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Contemporary Reviews

Pathos Trio – When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano

The Album  When Dark Sounds Collide: New Music for Percussion and Piano consists of fiveRead More

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  • Maison Melody AM/PM by Stephen Emmer

  • Malpaso, Fusion of Modern Dance and Cuban Innovation: No Missteps Here

  • Blueprint & Jacob Jezioro at the Axiom Art Gallery

  • Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence: Grace, Mercy, and The Equality of Night and Day: First Glimpse

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Jazz Reviews

My Fair Lady: The Perfect Musical Reboot at TPAC

In 1913, when George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was first premiered in Europe, the world wasRead More

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  • Fiddler on the Roof at TPAC

  • Don Aliquo Presents “Tribute to Stan Getz” at the Frist

  • At the Schermerhorn and then Rudy’s: A Saturday Night Out in Music City

  • Oracle Blue Brings Swank Pop to Rudy’s

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News

NAAWS (Nashville African American Wind Symphony): a welcome addition to the Scene

Nashville has a new ensemble, the NAAWS! Their mission is remarkable and important: The NashvilleRead More

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  • We’re Live….. Again!

  • Cancellation of Rigoletto

  • Attitude: A Two-Part Virtual Series Preview

  • The National Museum of African American Music

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