Author: Joseph Morgan

from the Annals of Nashville's Diversity:

Mendelssohn, Huang, and Barnes at the Schermerhorn

Sometimes the best concerts give you no, or very little, indication of what is happening beforehand. This was the case with the Nashville Symphony’s presentation on April 11 & 12,Read More

At the Fisk Chapel

Upon These Shoulders: The Living Legacy

On April 4th, in Fisk’s historic Memorial Chapel, Intersection, Choral Arts Link, and the W. Crimm Singers (aka Wakanda Chorale) presented the their annual concert series Upon these Shoulders: TheRead More

Spiritual Festival Concert to Honor TSU Prof. Darryl Nettles and Lorenzo Washington, founder of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum.

From the event’s press release: On April 14th, the Ninth Annual Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival Scholarship Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Laura Turner Concert HallRead More

The Jazz Beat — April 2025

This Month’s Highlights Here are the performances this month that I have picked out as really special, ones you won’t be able to catch any day of the week. TheyRead 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

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

They Say it's a Birthday!

Reveling in Ravel: The Review

On Saturday, February 1 the Nashville Symphony hosted a concert celebrating Maurice Ravel’s 150th Birthday. While he was actually born in March, this is certainly close enough, and coming onRead More

Ax, Mozart and Ravel at the Schermerhorn

On the snowy second weekend of 2025 the Nashville Symphony offered a concert consisting of two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Overture to Cosi fan tutte (1790), and theRead More

‘Turn It Up’ and ‘Boogieman’ from Cam Gallagher and The Tasty Soul

When their manager first sent me an email in October, looking for seasonal coverage of their Boogieman,”I thought that Cam Gallagher and The Tasty Soul were perhaps a little tooRead More

Martha Graham returns to Nashville—at least in spirit!

On January 31 and February 1, as part of their amazing International Dance Series Season Package, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) is presenting the Martha Graham Dance Company. FoundedRead More