The final concert of the season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra each May is, in may ways, like a commencement ceremony—it always seems to elicit a range of emotions in …
KSO’s April Masterworks Concerts Offer a Mix of the Familiar and the Contemporary
At first glance, at least, the program for last weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts didn’t reveal any particular reasons to expect anything out of the ordinary. On the bill …
Mezzo-soprano Catherine Daniel Makes Her American Debut in Knoxville Opera’s ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’
What did Gaetano Donizetti find so fascinating about England’s Queen Elizabeth I? Drawing from a well of popular plays and novels based on her life and reign, the composer created …
Knoxville Opera Showcases Donizetti’s Fictionalized Account of ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’
In opera generally, and specifically in Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 bel canto masterwork Maria Stuarda (“Mary, Queen of Scots”), creative license and fictional what-ifs add an angle or two to the …
Claire Chenette Headlines a Refreshing KSO Chamber Program of Mozart and More
In his biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the 20th-century musicologist Alfred Einstein came right to the point on the Mozart wind concertos: “All these concertos have something special and personal …