Day: October 18, 2025

The MCR Interview:

Improvising a Dream: David Rodgers and the Birth of the Nashville Jazz Festival

For pianist and composer David Rodgers, the idea of a Nashville Jazz Festival has been simmering for more than a decade. Ever since arriving in the city as a VanderbiltRead More

The MCR Interview

Necessary: J’Nai Bridges on Art, Opening Minds, and the Responsibility of Voice

In this in-depth conversation (embedded below) mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges discusses her upcoming performance with the Nashville Symphony in Reflections and Hope, featuring Brian Field’s new composition Everything Hurts, inspired byRead More

Broadway at TPAC

The Outsiders are In

If you never had The Outsiders appear in your reading list, the plot takes place over a short period of time. It happens in Tulsa in the late 1960’s, withRead More