Year: 2025

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

at TPAC

&Juliet is as Merry as the Day is Long

February 11th was the opening night of &Juliet at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. This jukebox musical is a re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare written by David WestRead More

Pride and Prejudice

Following the series of creative adaptations of classical literature comes Pride and Prejudice, a retelling of Jane Austen’s novel.  Described as “not your grandmother’s Austen”, the collaboration between Belmont University’sRead More

The MCR Interview:

Cellist Inbal Segev on Bach, Adamo and Her Compositional Process

Music City Review Journalist Jayna Powell speaks with Cellist Inbal Segev about her career, her working relationships with composers like Mark Adamo, Anne Clyne and Timo Andres, as well asRead 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

“Overflowing and Unlimited . . .” – Nelsons and the BSO release live recording of the Turangalîla-Symphonie

I will admit that I have a rather large soft spot for the music of Olivier Messiaen.  Experiments with total serialism, Medieval and Hindustani rhythmic influences, incorporation of bird songRead More

Complicidad Sonora: El Espíritu De Nashville Chamber Music Society

  (English version here) Romance & Heartache se tituló la velada musical que Nashville Chamber Music Society ofreció el 30 de enero en la Iglesia Metodista Calvary United. No eraRead More

Sonorous Kinship: The Spirit of Nashville Chamber Music Society

(versión en español aquí) Romance & Heartache was the title of the musical evening that the Nashville Chamber Music Society presented on January 30 at Calvary United Methodist Church. TheRead More

A Joyful Night at the Schermerhorn

It was with great pleasure that I was able to attend the Nashville Symphony’s concert, Beethoven’s Ninth: Ode to Joy, on Friday February 7th. The orchestra was led by conductorRead More

From Nashville's most intimate boards

Alice by Heart at the Barbershop

Street Theatre Company’s Alice by Heart, directed by Leslie Marberry, opens this weekend at the Barbershop theater in West Nashville. I was lucky enough to view the final dress rehearsalRead More