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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

Coming September 20-22 at TPAC

Nashville Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

Choreography and direction by Paul Vasterling Fight direction and choreography by Tim Klotz Music by Sergei Prokofiev Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers return toRead More

Traditions in Music City

Old Jams, New Jams, Blackberry Jams, and Blues

***This article is part of a new series, Traditions in Music City, which will focus on the many and diverse musical traditions happening around Nashville. Instead of a critical focus,Read More

Upcoming Performance

Chatterbird to Perform Improvisational Concert Using Footage from Nashville Metro Archives

Chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber ensemble, has announced further details for their next performance, Historic Nashville: A Celebration in Music and Film. The concert is free and open to the publicRead More

News

Nashville Opera to receive $25,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscalRead More

Carmina Burana: A Discussion with Steve Brosvik, COO of the Nashville Symphony

Last week, we had the opportunity to speak with Steve Brosvik, the COO of the Nashville Symphony, about the upcoming performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Not only does thisRead More

CD Review

Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos”, Guitar Concerto, and Starburst by The Nashville Symphony Orchestra

This 2019 live recording release from Naxos presents Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 commissioned for the Nashville Symphony’s Violins of Hope project. The Violins of Hope are a collection of stringedRead More

Spano and Trpčeski with the Nashville Symphony

On the first weekend in May the Nashville Symphony gave a concert featuring Michael Gandolfi’s The Garden of the Senses Suites, Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op.Read More

The Silkroad Ensemble Makes a Stop in Music City

The Silkroad Ensemble has had a long history of radical cultural collaboration. In anticipation of their appearance in Nashville next Monday evening, the Music City Review had a chance toRead More

Wu Fei’s Hello Gold Mountain at Ingram Hall

We live in an age of immigration. Since 2016 over 5 million refugees have fled the warzone in Syria and nearly a million Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution in Myanmar.Read More

Nashville Symphony presents Kernis, Barber, and Beethoven

This past weekend The Nashville Symphony presented a true cornucopia of musical selections: a contemporary new work by Jay Kernis, a challenging and versatile cello concerto by Samuel Barber, andRead More