For most composers, if the premiere of a new opera—one lasting over five hours—was greeted by catcalls, whistles, boos, and an angry audience exodus, it would probably be a fatal …
KSO Opens Its Important New Season With a Celebration of American Composers
It’s not uncommon at all to hear words like “polyphony” and “fugue”—words that refer to multiple independent melodic ideas occurring simultaneously—in or around Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts. However, in the …
Clarence Brown Kicks Off New Season With Hitchock Parody ‘The 39 Steps’
The late Ralph Allen, chairman of the theater department at the University of Tennessee from 1972 to 1978 and a founder of the Clarence Brown Theatre Company, was known to …
Local Theater Company Yellow Rose Earns a Place in the Prestigious NYC International Fringe Fest
I’m rather fond of the term “cultural gravity,” for it seems to neatly describe the symbiotic effect that arts organizations operating in close proximity have on one another. While Knoxville’s …
Lucas Richman Closes His Final Season as KSO Director
“Where words fail, music speaks” was Maestro Lucas Richman’s simple introduction to the encore selection—the poignant and wistful Variation IX (“Nimrod”) from Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations—on his final concert as …