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Nashville Symphony, performing without a net with ‘Cirque Musica’
For its final pops concert of the 2012-13 season, the Nashville Symphony has transformed the Schermerhorn Symphony Center into a circus big tent. At least, that’s how things felt on Thursday night, as conductor Albert George Schram led the NSO and a host of daredevil acrobats and gymnasts in a program titled “Cirque Musica.” The [...]
Alias caps its season with two world premieres
Anyone who thinks that classical music is strictly an antiquarian affair has obviously never attended an Alias Chamber Ensemble concert. On Wednesday night, Alias was at the Blair School of Music’s Turner Hall, presenting a program consisting largely of 21st-century music. Cellist Matt Walker was quick to point out one of this performance’s most salient [...]
Corcoran named new Nashville Symphony Chorus director
Nashville Symphony associate conductor Kelly Corcoran has had a huge year working as the interim director of the orchestra’s chorus. She helped prepare a terrific Mahler Symphony No. 8 for the season opener and guided the singers through their first Mendelssohn Elijah. It’s no surprise, then, that the NSO has selected her to become the [...]
Music City Center Features Nashville Arts in Opening Celebration
The Music City Center may be brand new, but it already knows how to host a celebration. The grand opening festivities kicked off Sunday as Mayor Karl Dean led thousands of his fellow Nashvillians through a tour of the facility. ArtsNash was there to see the role our city’s visual and performing arts would play [...]
Upcoming Nashville Children’s Theatre Season Full of Favorites
Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT), the nation’s oldest professional theater for children, has announced its 82nd season for youth, families, and adults. NCT is the perfect place for the expanding variety of people in Middle Tennessee to explore their personalities and interests – misfits, adventurers, thinkers, and rebels can all find themselves at NCT. The theater [...]
Theater review: Studio Tenn’s ‘My Fair Lady’ Flawless until Finale
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Nearly all of Studio Tenn’s My Fair Lady is wonderful (or “loverly” in the show’s lingo). But I have strong negative thoughts and feelings about the way the terrific troupe ends the final scene of this great Golden Age musical. The Alan Jay Lerner – Frederick Loewe adaptation that used George Bernard Shaw’s [...]
Nashville Ballet’s Macbeth: Something wicked good this way comes
Nashville Ballet has been lavishing attention on William Shakespeare of late. Last month, the company presented a radiant rendition of Romeo and Juliet. Now it’s Macbeth’s turn. This weekend, Shakespeare’s murderous Scot is the focus of a new ballet featuring the choreography of Nashville Ballet artistic director Paul Vasterling and the music of contemporary American [...]
Luhrmann v. Fitzgerald, or There Oughta Be a Law
We interrupt this theater-oriented column to talk about a book and a movie. At first, you’d think they’re the same: The Great Gatsby. They’re not. They’re F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, and Baz Luhrmann’s anti-masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, wherein he treats the April 10, 1925, novel as if it were the blueprint for a bungalow that [...]
‘Shakespeare: The King’s Man’ Doc Connects Us with Bard’s Words
Like many whose introduction to William Shakespeare has come through the dry instruction of an English class James Shapiro was no fan of the Bard while growing up. “I was turned off by it in junior high and high school and I never took a college course on Shakespeare so I came to it late [...]
Theater review: ‘Spring Awakening’ Teen Turmoil is Ecstasy at STC
Watching a musical at Street Theatre Company is typically a pleasurable experience. Watching their production of Spring Awakening, one of the best musicals in recent years, is sheer ecstasy. Director Martha Wilkinson, Musical Director Rollie Mains, Choreographer Holly Shepherd and the performing artists presenting their version of the 2006 winner of eight Tony Awards have [...]
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