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Nashville Symphony Presents Beyond the Score®: Shostakovich’s Fourth – Is Music Dangerous?

The Nashville Symphony’s 2019/20 Classical Series resumes on September 27-28 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center with Beyond the Score®: Shostakovich’s Fourth – Is Music Dangerous?, a program centered around Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony that uniquely blends history and music for newcomers and aficionados alike. Developed and licensed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Beyond the Score® offers audiences a look into some of the classical repertoire’s most important composers and works through a multimedia experience that weaves together theater, music and video to tell the compelling stories that helped shape the music’s creation. The Nashville Symphony’s performances open with a presentation exploringRead More

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Another Fantastic Night Coming to the Schermerhorn

This upcoming weekend the Nashville symphony will be performing the next addition of their Classical Series featuring Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Recovering from the psychological damage and toll of theRead More

The MCR Interview

Conductor Ruth Reinhardt on Brahms, Montgomery and her Upcoming Visit to Nashville

As part of the MCR Interview series, Journalist Daniel Krenz interviews Conductor Ruth Reinhardt about her upcoming visit to the Nashville Symphony. This series is funded in part by MetroRead More

At the Schermerhorn

The New Season has begun, do you have your seats?

With 14 GRAMMY Awards, and 27 nominations, to its credit, the Nashville Symphony is an artistic giant existing quite literally adjacent to the neon lights of Nashville’s Honky Tonk Highway.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

The MCR Interview

Interview with Giancarlo Guerrero

Daniel Krenz: Good afternoon, it’s a pleasure to speak with you today! I’m really looking forward to this concert. It seems to be a perfect picture of what the NashvilleRead More

The MCR Interview:

Interview with Matthew Phelps of the Elliston Trio

This Wednesday February 1st, the Elliston Trio is performing a set of piano trio’s by Joseph Haydn and Maurice Ravel at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. This is a free concertRead More

The MCR Interview

A Conversation with Anne Akiko Meyers

On behalf of the Music City Review (MCR), I had a chance to ask world-renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers (AAM) a few questions about her upcoming performance in Nashville. TheRead More

The MCR Interview

A Preview of Nashville Symphony’s ‘Modern Masterpieces for Brass’ with Tubist Gilbert Long

The Nashville Symphony will present ‘Modern Masterpieces for Brass’ at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Wednesday, March 8, 6:00 p.m., as part of the Chamber Music Series. This free event willRead More

The MCR Interview:

MaryGrace Bender and the Nashville Chamber Music Society

Benjamin Gates had a chance to chat with the new star on the Music City Horizon, the Nashville Chamber Music Society’s founder and director, MaryGrace Bender. The following is aRead More

The MCR Interview

Interview with Pianist Jan Lisiecki

On January 6-8 the Nashville Symphony will present a concert at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center that features Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, “one of the most astounding, in-demand young pianists inRead More