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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 the Gateway Chamber Orchestra

Hispanic Lent with La Pasión Según San Marcos

A dust cloud arises above the ground gradually revealing an uncertain phenomenon. The more it becomes visible, the stronger is the instinct that something startling is about to happen. IsRead More

Ides of March at Schermerhorn

Music City Review Goes to War (and Leaves the Funk in Peace)

The lights were already dimmed as I raced in after seeking my reserved parking space in an apparently nonexistent parking lot. The Latino singer was midway through the first verseRead More

This Mosquito Doesn’t Bite: Kid Koala at OzArts.

The opening night of OzArt’s The Storyville Mosquito featured a unique kind of immersive storytelling: a movie in three acts created live. The show was sold out, an additional showingRead More

Coming to the Nashville Repertory Theatre

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Preview

“I first saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in a large theatre in its original Broadway run in 2015,” says Executive Director Drew Ogle. “I immediatelyRead More

A Chamber Music Series Concert Presented by Members of the Nashville Symphony

Modern Masterpieces for Brass

Select members of the Nashville Symphony presented ‘Modern Masterpieces for Brass’ at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Wednesday, March 8, 6:00 p.m. This free event was offered as part of theRead More

Gateway Chamber Orchestra Presents

La Pasión: A Culturally Diverse Musical Performance of the Last Days of Christ

Following their sensational debut performances of Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s work, La Pasión según San Marcos [St. Mark Passion] to pandemic limited audiences, (covered by MCR here) the GCO willRead More

Americans in the Schermerhorn

This past weekend was one of the most exciting programs that I had seen at the Nashville Symphony in a while. And for good measure, this program encapsulated everything thatRead More

At TPAC's Polk Theater

August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ is coming to Nashville Repertory

“August Wilson is truly one of the greatest American playwrights, and Fences is his masterpiece,” says Executive Director Drew Ogle. “After having to cancel our originally planned production due to the pandemic,Read More

Winter Shakespeare Presents:

Love’s Labor’s Lost: An Approachable, Silly Night

Most of us have read or seen Shakespeare’s big tragedies and comedies, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and so on. I was unfamiliar with Love’sRead More

From the Nashville Symphony

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn

A Latin Fiesta at the Schermerhorn On February 3 & 4 the Nashville Symphony gave a rather eclectic and unconventionally exquisite concert billed as a “Latin Fiesta!” with a groupRead More