Author: Joseph Morgan

An Annual Music City Event

The International Black Film Festival

Perhaps one of the greatest hidden treasures of Music City, the annual International Black Film Festival (IBFF), is held on the last weekend of September (the same weekend as theRead More

From Nashville Opera

Pagliacci’s Suffering and Guilt

On September 21 Nashville Opera presented a wonderful performance of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s verismo masterpiece Pagliacci at Jackson Hall in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. A reprise of the company’s stagingRead More

At the Schermerhorn

An Awful lot of Americana for Opening Night

The new season is here! The Nashville Symphony held their opening night gala on September 9th with a concert that featured four pieces of American music. Two were written, arranged,Read More

Coming to the Schermerhorn

Perry, Stravinsky and Ohlsson’s Brahms at the Schermerhorn

On September 15, the Nashville Symphony will present a concert featuring Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Julia Perry’s Short Piece for Orchestra and Johannes Brahms’ First Piano Concerto performed byRead More

From Vienna:

Sabine Devieilhe in Brahms Saal

On Friday, June 16th, Sabine Devieilhe performed a recital of lieder by Austro-German composers in the historic Brahms-Saal at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. The sixth concert of the LiederabendeRead More

From Nashville Ballet

New in Nashville

On the weekend of April 21st Nashville Ballet gave the last performance of their ’22-’23 season featuring a company premiere choreography Snowblind by Cathy Marston and world premiere choreography InRead More

The MCR Interview:

an Interview with Paul Vasterling

On the weekend of April 21-23 The Nashville Ballet will be holding a series of performances titled New in Nashville in honor of their departing artistic Director Paul Vasterling [PV].Read More

From the Nashville Symphony

Wonderful Performances on a Dark Night in Nashville.

On April 1, the Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Ken-David Masur, joined the Nashville Symphony for a performance of Grażyna Bacewicz’ Overture for Orchestra, Sergei Prokofiev’s ViolinRead More

Gateway Chamber Orchestra Presents

La Pasión: A Culturally Diverse Musical Performance of the Last Days of Christ

Following their sensational debut performances of Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s work, La Pasión según San Marcos [St. Mark Passion] to pandemic limited audiences, (covered by MCR here) the GCO willRead More

From the Nashville Symphony

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn On February 3 & 4 the Nashville Symphony gave a rather eclectic and unconventionally exquisite concert billed as a “Latin Fiesta!” with a groupRead More