For Nashville Symphony Principal Oboist Titus Underwood, the pandemic has been a fairly prolific time. And while he looks forward to a return to the Schermerhorn stage, he also has a lot of goals for the future of orchestral music.
Classically Speaking: The 51 Percent
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.
Classically Speaking: Leila Adu And The Fierce Guardian Of Compassion
While this episode of Classically Speaking was prepared in a tumultuous time, we never could have predicted how many more shocking things would happen before its release. That being said, Leila Adu’s Mahakala Oratorio still might be the right piece of music for this exact moment.
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.