Listen / Students from Tennessee’s Governor’s School of the Arts, looking forward to the end of high school, brought a sense of anticipation to Studio C – in both the conversation and the music.
Live In Studio C: Quiet Friend Who Has Come So Far
Listen / This oratorio, performed by Portara Ensemble, tells the story of Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers by following the journey of one patient from her diagnosis. Poems from Dickinson and Rilke are set alongside poems by those touched by the disease.
Live In Studio C: Love and Loss In WWII
Listen / Composers Schulhoff, Schoenberg, and Shostakovitch all experienced the concentration camps of Nazi Germany in some way – either themselves, or through friends. The three pieces that the TN Governor’s School of the Arts faculty presented all related to this harrowing experience.
When The Silenced Made Sounds: 2018/2019’s Classical Music In Nashville
As the 2018/2019 arts season in Nashville drew to a close, one thing is apparent in hindsight: the underrepresented clearly have a voice in Music City’s classical scene.
Live in Studio C: Ahead Of Its Time, Part 2
Listen / This might be a first for Live in Studio C: because of the use of electronics, the musicians could not actually experience their own performance from inside of Studio C. Use of sensory percussion alongside two acoustic instruments led to essentially two concerts happening at once: one that the players could hear, and […]
Live In Studio C: Ahead Of Its Time, Part 1
Listen / Alias Chamber Ensemble’s upcoming concert features music that was seen as revolutionary when it premiered. In this first of two previews Alias sent the quartet that we fondly know as Cheap Trills, who brought music from JS Bach’s Matthäus-Passion – a piece from 1727.
Music For The Last Day Of School
As the school year comes to a close, we have all the music you need for your mixed feelings.
Cooking To The Classics: A Menu For Turangalîla
French composer Olivier Messiaen was a noted lover of travel, and places he visited often influenced his works. The Turangalîla-Symphonie is no exception — the title alone is a combination of two Sanskrit words. So we’ve curated a menu that takes the international musical flavors into account.
Live In Studio C: Outdoor Panorama
Listen / The sun was shining and the sky was blue as fifth- and sixth-graders from Scales Elementary who make up Steel de Boro performed in our first-ever out-of-studio production of Live In Studio C.
Live in Studio C: Hit And Pluck And Other Onomatopoeia
Listen / Chatterbird’s most recent concert repertoire was, overall, an experiment in sound. Students from the Blair School of Music were able to work with the ensemble for premieres, and members of the group were able to push their instruments past the limits of the standard orchestration book.
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