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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

The MCR Interview

Necessary: J’Nai Bridges on Art, Opening Minds, and the Responsibility of Voice

In this in-depth conversation (embedded below) mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges discusses her upcoming performance with the Nashville Symphony in Reflections and Hope, featuring Brian Field’s new composition Everything Hurts, inspired byRead More

A Spooky Season in the Music City Continues:

Ghosts! An Evening of Chilling Beauty from NCMS

This past weekend I had the great opportunity to attend the Nashville Chamber Music Society’s most recent concert. Themed appropriately for October and Halloween, the “Ghosts” themed concert was aRead More

Coming to Nashville Opera

The Sounds and Conventions of Madness in Moravec’s The Shining

In 2016, composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell premiered their adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining at St. Paul’s Ordway Center for Performing Arts with great success and excitement.Read More

Opening Night at the Schermerhorn.

Another year has passed and the Nashville Symphony has returned for the 2025-2026 season. This season will see a rotating crew of guest conductors as the Symphony still looks toRead More

GG, Orchestra: Gamesymphonic Hits All the Right Notes

When I think about what to say regarding Gamesymphonic, I’m reminded of a moment from the show that sums it up nicely. Conductor Eímear Noone informed the audience that aRead More

A Night Under the Stars

NCMS 2025-6 Season Opening Gala

The Nashville Chamber Music Society opened its 2025–26 season with their gala “A Night Under the Stars” on August 23, 2025, at Riverside Revival in East Nashville’s Inglewood neighborhood. TheRead More

The MCR Interview:

Leonard Slatkin on the Future of the Nashville Symphony

The Nashville Symphony is stepping into a new era, and few voices could frame the moment better than Leonard Slatkin. In a recent interview with Daniel Kren, the internationally celebratedRead More

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Music City Baroque and Venice

Titled Venice and the Ottoman Empire, there has been an extraordinary exhibition in the Ingram Gallery at the Frist Art Museum for most of the summer. The exhibition looks atRead More

From the Newest Opera Ensemble in Music City:

Canto615: Don Giovanni Laid Bare

Don Giovanni in a church – sounds a little ironic, don’t you think? I wasn’t sure what to expect coming into this performance. I knew that the opera was takingRead More

Accessible, yet Vivid, Jeremy Smith’s ‘For What It’s Worth’

Composer Jeremy Smith has just released For What It’s Worth, a short 19 minute piano album spanning several years of compositions and played excellently by Mary-Victoria Voutsas. Smith has madeRead More