Franklin-based theater company Studio Tenn announced next season’s shows today. The lineup features the return of an original work and new productions of stories audiences may find familiar. September 7-17, 2017: The Battle of Franklin: A Tale of a House Divided A. S. Peterson wrote this dramatization of the desperate, bloody conflict that overwhelmed the […]
Keeping The Score: A Look Back At Oscar-Winning Soundtracks
Two of the most buzzed about films of 2016, Moonlight and La La Land, have garnered a collective 22 Academy Award nominations between them, including nods for Best Original Score. On the surface, the music couldn’t be more different: The soundtrack for Moonlight is an amalgam of classical piano, strings, and hip-hop chopped and screwed […]
A Century After Its Riotous Premiere, Can ‘The Rite of Spring’ Still Shock Us?
On May 29, 1913, the premiere of The Rite of Spring was infamously met with a cacophony of boos, hisses and jeers from the audience.
For The Lovers And The Lonely Hearts: Great Classical Music for Valentine’s Day
Looking for the perfect classical soundtrack to bask in the most romantic day of the year? Look no further. Think Valentine’s Day is a shallow excuse of a holiday, invented by greeting card companies to cash in on the delusions of lovesick fools? We’ve got something for you, too! Regardless of your relationship status or […]
How A Toddler’s Imagination And The Election Led to Nashville Composer Wu Fei’s New Collaboration
The first Halloween after Beijing-born composer, performer and instrumentalist Wu Fei relocated with her family to Nashville, her young daughter Viola made a unique costume request: she wanted to be a “Batman Queen.” Always up for a creative challenge, Fei scoured the internet to curate the perfect getup for her daughter, who was busy proclaiming […]
Folk Music Ballet Shows What Another Century’s Immigration Wave Added To American Culture
This weekend, the Nashville Ballet performs a dance about immigrants that began in the pubs of London. Sergeant Early’s Dream delves into the difficulties that drove so many Irish and Scottish in the 18th and 19th centuries to leave their homes and forge new lives in America.
Spanish Pianist To Make His Nashville Debut With An Unconventional (But Well-Loved) Concerto
Spanish pianist Javier Perianes makes his Nashville debut this weekend, playing a somewhat unusual concerto with the Nashville Symphony. Camille Saint-Saens’s Second is now the most performed of the composer’s piano concertos, but early audiences weren’t sure what to make of it.
These Seven Black Composers Made Classical Music History
Black musicians have been making their mark on classical music for centuries, even if they haven’t always been afforded the spotlight they deserve. As Black History Month begins, here’s a look back at a few of the black composers who made significant contributions to the genre. George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (b. 1778; d. 1860) Although […]
Nashville Chamber Ensemble Uses Music To Remember A Vibrant Mind Lost To The Holocaust
The broad strokes of Etty Hillesum’s life before World War II were not particularly remarkable. Her father was a Dutch school master, and her mother was one of many Russian Jews who fled the pogroms of their homeland to make a new life Western Europe. Hillesum herself wasn’t a particularly good student, although she was […]
Nashville Symphony Plays The Original Soundtrack To Space Travel, Written Decades Before It Began
Spaceflight was just a theoretical possibility when Gustav Holst wrote his musical exploration of our solar system.
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