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Casting a spell with live music and a beloved film
Playing movie scores is challenging because you have to be flexible and adjust tempos within scenes, but you also do not have the luxury of being able to slow down scenes that are difficult. The...
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Soiree and Swoon
This past Tuesday, as part of the Knoxville Symphony League’s Elegant Dining Series, the musicians of the KSO hosted a “Symphony Soiree” where we musicians cooked the food and provided the...
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You Always Have Better Ballet Tickets Than I Do…
I always have a seat under the stage for ballet, so while I get some interesting views of fog, I never get to see whatever is going on in the show. This week changes everything because we have the...
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Ballet and Opera and Children, Oh My!
Last week’s masterworks was a fun concert, especially with the addition of the Appalachian Ballet Company dancers. Obviously, I didn’t get to watch everything that they did, but the part that really...
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Stringing Along February into March
One of the improvements the symphony has made in the last few years is in finding new ways to showcase the players. We have some really strong players in the orchestra, and the relatively new Q Series...
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March Forecast: KSO Goes to Washington
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will travel to Washington, D.C. in March 2020 to participate in the ‘SHIFT: Festival of American Orchestras’- where only four American orchestras will perform. The...
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Morph into Spring with this week’s music (Mendelssohn and More)
Just because it’s an interesting transition between playing the music of Pink Floyd on Saturday and moving on to Masterworks this week doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. The Pink Floyd crowd loved the...
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Demirjian Receives Solti Foundation Career Assistance Grant
Aram Demirjian, Music Director for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, received the 2019 Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S., the foremost organization in the United States dedicated...
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Tony Award Winner Leslie Odom, Jr. in Knoxville this week – and he’s a nice...
Leslie Odom. Jr. is a “Triple Threat” (singer, dancer, actor) and he’s done everything from the TV screen to Broadway, and he’s coming to Knoxville for one night only. “The world will never be the...
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That’s a wrap: Rodrigo, Ravel, and Paris
What a nice way to end a season with a wide variety of music from France, Spain and America! Gershwin’s “American in Paris” is a fun piece describing the clamor and beauty of Paris, a city that has...
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