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Coming this Month:

The Jazz Beat: March 2024

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss jazz events happening in Music City, so you can be sure to catch all your favorites, as well as discover new ones along the way. Get out there and support your local musicians and keep Music City thriving! This Month’s Highlights I’d like to begin by highlighting right up top some of the more unique events happening this month that I think you’ll be interested in. These include shows and acts that you won’t find as regularRead More

from Franklin Light Opera

The Pirates of Penzance

It’s easy on the one hand to write off the dramatic merits of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas, especially when they’re compared against much of the rest of the standard operaticRead More

The MCR Interview:

Actress Lisa Arrindell and ‘Jubilee’

Actress Lisa Arrindell speaks with MCR journalist Andrew Davis on Tazwell Thompson’s Opera ‘Jubilee’ premiering at the Seattle Opera this month. They discuss the history of the Jubilee Ensemble andRead More

Music History in the Music City

How the Fiddle Became the Violin

On Sunday, September 29th, Music City Baroque put on a wonderful historical program mapping the history of violin in folk and art music. Titled “How the Fiddle Became the Violin”Read More

Nashville's 2024–2025 Dance Season:

Come Spin, Swerve, Swivel, and Squirm

Wurm's "Big Disobedience" in Nashville
In 2022-2023 I had a “Wait and See” attitude. From 2022–2023: Before I returned home to Middle Tennessee, I binged ballet in New York and Houston, two American cities withRead More

Coming in October!

The Jazz Beat (October 1-15)

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss jazz events happening in Music City, soRead More

The Ties that Bind:

Bizet’s Carmen at the Nashville Opera

Bernardo Medeiros (Zuniga), Sara Crigger (Mercedes), Marina Costa-Jackson (Carmen), and Dee Donasco (Frasquita) in "Les tringles des sistres tintaient"
The lights in the theatre dim and the chattering crowd is suddenly silent, drinks with condensation dripping off them clutched tightly as the orchestra, one behemoth of magical sound, beginsRead More

A ‘Portal’ to ‘Behold’ at the Frist

The current exhibitions at the Frist Art Museum are María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold and LaJuné McMillian: The Portal’s Keeper—Origins. These are separate exhibitions; however, they are connected in their intentRead More

From Playhouse615

Sordid Lives: A Captivating Production

“A tale of Southern pride,” Del Shores’ 1996 play Sordid Lives is affectionately described as a white-trash black comedy. It juxtaposes conflicting, often humorous themes that reflect Southern life. WhileRead More

At Oz Arts

DakhaBrakha Redux: The Triumphant Return of the Ukrainian Quartet

In 2023, a year and a day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, DakhaBrakha performed at OZ Arts here in Nashville. With their fusion of folk, rock, funk, blues, andRead More

A Portrait

Wayne Oquin: Composer and Educator

The Nashville Symphony has just released a new CD titled “Organ Concertos” under the American Classics label at Naxos. On this CD is a piece titled “Resilience” by Wayne OquinRead More