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After the Storm . . .

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  We’re not even halfway through the year and we’ve weathered a catastrophic tornado and are grappling with a global pandemic . . . and we’re not out of the woods yet.  As our communities gradually reopen and we learn to adjust to what is a hopefully temporary “new normal”, we are all confronted with uncertainty and apprehension about the future.  But, even as we adjust to quarantine, social distancing, facemasks, and the elbow bump rather than the handshake – we can still takeRead More

At the Schermerhorn...

Shostakovich at the Nashville Symphony: This is Why Art Matters.

As I write this, and most likely as you read it, we are both secure in the tacit knowledge that despite the imperfection, inequality, and division present in our currentRead More

Nashville Ballet Presents

Romeo and Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity,  In fair Verona, where we lay our scene… So begins the most renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare. Two brought so close by love yetRead More

Essential Movement: Young People’s Chorus of New York City in Murfreesboro

I am a choral music nerd. It is a tradition I was raised in and the foundation of my education is as a musician. Most of all, choral music wasRead More

Classical Reviews

The Nashville Symphony Presents Carmina Burana

On Saturday, June 1, the Nashville Symphony gave a special performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, featuring the Nashville Ballet, Nashville Symphony Chorus, and Blair Children’s Chorus. The program alsoRead More

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Olivier Messiaen’s “Song of Love” at the Schermerhorn

As a proud new music nerd and relentless proponent of thought provoking art, I was thrilled to discover that the Nashville Symphony would be performing Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie during the 2018-2019Read More

Spectrum: An Eclectic Collaboration at Oz

On May 18 and 19, Nashville’s contemporary music ensemble Intersection collaborated with the choral ensemble Nashville in Harmony to present a concert titled Spectrum at OZ arts in Nashville. TheRead More

CD Review

Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos”, Guitar Concerto, and Starburst by The Nashville Symphony Orchestra

This 2019 live recording release from Naxos presents Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 commissioned for the Nashville Symphony’s Violins of Hope project. The Violins of Hope are a collection of stringedRead More

Nashville Opera’s The Cradle Will Rock: an Anthem for All of Us

Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock is an ode to the working class, consisting of bountiful hot-button social commentary and dashes of sly barbs to boot. The work takes placeRead More

Spano and Trpčeski with the Nashville Symphony

On the first weekend in May the Nashville Symphony gave a concert featuring Michael Gandolfi’s The Garden of the Senses Suites, Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op.Read More

Merging Concert and Choreography: Ben Folds with Nashville Ballet

At the heart of ballet is the interplay of music and physique: the use of the intimate relationship between sound, silence, and the responsive movement of the body to bringRead More