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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

From the Music City Baroque

Unabashedly European: Chamber music from the Court, Church and Coffee house

Music City Baroque welcomes the return of acclaimed keyboardist Steven Matthews to Nashville for a special performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor (BWV 1058). Now servingRead More

At the Symphony next weekend (March 12-14)

Sounds of the 20th and 21st-Century American Symphony

A variety of celebrations are already underway or planned across the United States and its territories to mark the Semiquincentennial of this nation’s birth. The Nashville Symphony continues its participationRead More

In Ingram Hall:

Celebrating 60 Years with Duo Assad

On February 19th, Vanderbilt’s Ingram Hall was filled in anticipation for a performance by Duo Assad, a rarity for a classical guitar concert. The Duo Assad are a pair ofRead More

Benjamin Chakoian Jones' Great Spaces (Concert Review)

Occupying The Great Space

What does it mean to be spatially aware? Sure, one might be aware of their immediate surroundings, but what of the space we all inhabit? Composer Benjamin Chakoian Jones grapplesRead More

The TSU Meistersingers Bring Down the House with their Parthenon Debut

On the evening of Super Bowl Sunday, music lovers packed the Parthenon at Centennial Park full in anticipation of a double-billing of wonderful music. Organized by the Centennial Park ConservancyRead More

The NSO’s Soundstage Brat: A Hollywood Backstory

January 21, 2026, 7:30 p.m. the Nashville Symphony Orchestra hosted a special event with Leonard Slatkin in Laura Turner Hall at the Nashville’s Schermerhorn Center: Soundstage Brat: A Hollywood Backstory.Read More

Bernstein and Leshnoff Shine at the Nashville Symphony

The weekend of February 13th included one of those shows at the Nashville Symphony that attendees will remember fondly. Guest conductor Robert Spano, currently Music Director of the Fort WorthRead More

When Love Wins the Hand: Nashville Opera’s La fanciulla del West

As I walked into Belmont University’s Fischer Center, I noticed that it was one of those weirdly quiet nights when you can feel the barometer shift as a huge winterRead More

The Room as Instrument

B Chakoian Jones on The Great Space

When composer B Chakoian Jones first conceived The Great Space, it was not as a recording, nor even as a fixed musical object, but as a response—to architecture, to reverberation,Read More

At the Schermerhorn

Clarity, Contrast, and Conviction: A Conversation with Gemma New

When Gemma New steps onto the podium with the Nashville Symphony next weekend, she brings with her a reputation for clarity, curiosity, and an uncommonly human approach to orchestral music-making.Read More