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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

The MCR Interview:

Maestro Guerrero Discusses the New Season (and much else…)

This summer Benjamin Gates, writer for the Music City Review, had the opportunity to interview NSO Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero about the state of the orchestra and music in theRead More

A new music ensemble:

NAAWS (Nashville African American Wind Symphony): a welcome addition to the Scene

Nashville has a new ensemble, the NAAWS! Their mission is remarkable and important: The Nashville African American Wind Symphony presents a broad range of educational, entertainment, and cultural programs. WeRead More

Cancellation of Rigoletto

The Nashville Opera was excited to return to the stage performing popular Opera Rigoletto by Verdi April 8th through the 10th . Unfortunately, due to the circumstances of the COVID-19Read More

Nashville Opera

An Opera Premiere from Nashville Opera…THIS WEEKEND!

Nashville Opera will open its season with a commission, N.O.’s first, in a performance of the election day drama One Vote One with music composed by Tennessee native David RaglandRead More

Hope from the Nashville Opera

Can You Imagine a Beach-Party Themed Cinderella Next June? Nashville Opera can!

In the most wonderful sense of optimism and a little more than a decent dose of stubbornness, Nashville Opera has released their schedule for next season, a celebration of theirRead More

the Nashville Symphony

Beethoven and Genius: an Interview with Maestro Guerrero

This weekend, February 20th through the 23rd, Nashville Symphony will present an all-Beethoven concert, including the ground-breaking Eroica symphony, the somewhat confusingly titled Leonore Overture No. 3 (one of severalRead More

Nashville Opera

Britten’s ‘Turn of the Screw’

On January 24th-26th Nashville Opera will offer a production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, a chilling ghost story based on Henry James’ novella of the same name.Read More

The Neujahrskonzert at the Schermerhorn

In 1995 Marion and Attila Glatz sought to reproduce the Neujahrskonzert in Canada and the United States. The concert is a Viennese tradition that they had grown up with in AustriaRead More

the Nashville Symphony

“Neglected Jewels” and “Pristine Acoustics:” Paul Jacobs Returns to Nashville

Ahead of his visit to Nashville on November 21-23, when he will play Horatio Parker’s Concerto in E-flat Minor for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 55 in concert with the NashvilleRead More

Music City News:

The River as Song: Prolific American and Chinese Songwriters Take the Stage at Analog at Hutton

A concert that features multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale and multiple national music award-winner Su Yang, from China is going to take place at the Analog at Hutton HotelRead More