Nashville’s chamber orchestra Intersection has commissioned new works from 25 female-identifying as well as nonbinary and gender nonconforming composers for a project titled “Listen.”
Classically Speaking: Maurice Ravel’s Wonderful World Of Childhood Tantrums
There’s nothing more wild yet utterly predictable than a child’s tantrum. But in Maurice Ravel’s opera L’enfant et les sortilèges, the consequences take the child completely by surprise.
6 Questions With Student Composer Fellow Sylvia Rapp
Our 2020/2021 Student Composer Fellowship is well underway. To get to know them better, we asked each of the participants these six questions.
6 Questions With Student Composer Fellow Benjamin Dondanville
Our 2020/2021 Student Composer Fellowship is well underway. To get to know them better, we asked each of the participants these six questions.
Classically Speaking: Synth Patches, Spy Games, and Songs In Code – Composing ‘Call Of Duty’
The newest “Call of Duty” game hit the market in late 2020. In “Black Ops – Cold War” it’s composer Jack Wall’s job to transport you to the turbulence of the 1980s.
Unstoppable: Classical Music In Nashville Played On Throughout 2020
Seemingly against all odds Nashville’s classical music community proved in 2020 that they are absolutely unstoppable by still creating memorable experiences for Music City.
Classically Speaking: Love, Magic, And A Mechanical Tree
In honor of Nutcracker Season we’re bringing a well-loved episode of Classically Speaking out of the archive this week.
Classically Speaking: A Bubble, A Chapel, And 30 Million Hearing Lessons And Carols
While many Christmas traditions have been disrupted this season, the international audience that tunes in annually to hear “Carols from King’s” can carry on this year.
Classically Speaking: A Word On Beethoven’s Nine
As we celebrate the sesquicentennial year of composer Ludwig van Beethoven, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero joined us for a look at all nine of his symponies.
Classically Speaking: Celebrating Beethoven, On The Count Of Four
Classical music loves a milestone, and with the approach of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, we had a big one coming in 2020. But, our plans were all thrown thanks to COVID-19.