Month: April 2024

Total Art at the Nashville Ballet: Vasterling, Prokofiev, and more

Paul Vasterling’s Romeo and Juliet is definitely a tour de force. As he reveals in the pre-performance video, his intent was to create balance between narrative and dance, between movementRead More

Coming this Month:

The Jazz Beat: May, 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

Lesser and Greater Mysteries: Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Nashville Opera

There’s a rousing musical clarity at the end of The Magic Flute’s first act that’s so at odds with the just-transpired turns of the plot and our main characters’ newfoundRead More

Song of the North: a Thousand-Year-Old Tale of Empowerment at Oz Arts

The longest epic poem created by a single author, Shahnameh, the Epic of the Persian Kings, tells the history of pre-Islamic Persia in 62 stories that amass 50,000 rhyming couplets.Read More

From the Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Hamlet

It seems to me that the primary difficulty, or “rub” in producing Hamlet, perhaps the most well-known play that Shakespeare wrote, and arguably the greatest play ever written (depending, ofRead More

Latino en Nashville, Abril, 2024

English version here La escena musical de Nashville se está ampliando en un energizante panorama de artistas y proyectos referentes de la música latinoamericana. Mariachi, Banda, Salsa, Cumbia y RockRead More

Frist Art Museum in collaboration with Nashville Opera

When Marian Sang

It wasn’t clear what to expect. A collaboration between an art museum and an opera company was unusual enough to pique curiosity in lovers of both arts. So, on aRead More

From Our Far-flung Correspondents Series:

Yuja Wang, Andris Nelsons and the BSO Tackle the Turangalîla-Symphonie

On the weekend of April 12-13 I was able to attend a musicology conference on music criticism at one of those fancy schools just outside of Boston, MA. During myRead More

Coming in July

Nashville Sonido Latino: July 2024

(Versión en español aquí) GIOVANNI RODRÍGUEZ & 12 MANOS Rudy’s Jazz Room Every Monday 9:00 PM Tickets $19.44+ Social media: Instagram Every Monday night at Rudy’s Jazz Room, the Caribbean sunRead More

Now My Favorite Color is Purple

  Sitting down in TPAC’s Polk Theater, the stage is distinctive, all dark, wide, wood planks. There is a slight platform in the center of the stage, and all entrancesRead More