When Emi Kagawa sits down this week to play the piano part during the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, she’ll be nestled in among the glockenspiel, …
From the Pit: KSO Principal Cellist Andy Bryenton
It’s a cold heart that doesn’t swoon when the cello sings. Possessing one of the warmest, most romantic timbres in the orchestra, it is the instrument that Camille Saint-Saens chose …
Meet Jeffery Whaley, KSO Principal Horn Player
The French horn is one of the orchestra’s most skittish instruments, with a notoriously flighty temperament. It has the widest range of all the brass and an almost endless number …