The catalog of Western chamber music stretches back to the Middle Ages, but the vast majority of it is written for a handful of familiar formats: piano trios, string quartets, …
Knoxville Opera Revisits Gilbert and Sullivan’s Silly, Whimsical Masterpiece ‘The Pirates of Penzance’
It may seem like a stretch to mention the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton and Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance in the same sentence, but there are indisputable …
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 …
KSO’s New Era Begins With a Solid Opening Masterworks Concert
There were two decidedly different layers of entertainment last weekend as the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra opened its 2016-17 Masterworks season. One, naturally enough, was the music, a program of two …
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 …