What better way to celebrate the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment than with music by women, performed by pianist Lara Downes?
Classically Speaking: Conductors In Conversation
Diversity as an intrinsic part of your organization, rather than a goal. Building a new canon. Mourning what we lost this year. These topics and more were in focus during our look at the future of orchestras with Mei-Ann Chen, JoAnn Falletta, and Jeri Lynne Johnson.
Classically Speaking: Bespoke Music Making With Jennifer Higdon
Composer Jennifer Higdon has built one of the most diverse and exciting catalogs of music in our time. She has written tone poems, operas, choral works, and band music. But her concerto list is by far the most varied and creative.
New Opera, Celebrating The 19th Amendment, Pays Homage To A Nashville Suffragist And A Civil Rights Icon
Across Nashville, an entire year’s worth of artistic commissions and performances were planned to celebrate this year’s centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification — and many have been postponed. But one new work, called One Vote Won, is still having its premiere digitally, courtesy of Nashville Opera.
91Classical Promotes Student Composer Fellows To Role Of Ambassador
As our first class of Student Composer Fellows completed their program, we found that we were not ready for our relationship with these brilliant young minds to end. So, we have added the role of Student Composer Ambassador.
91Classical Welcomes The 2020/2021 Student Composer Fellows
As school begins in Middle Tennessee, so does a new round of our Student Composer Fellowship.
Remembering Leon Fleisher At The Piano And In Front Of The Orchestra
Pianist Leon Fleisher died this weekend at the age of 92, after a lifetime of overcoming physical obstacles. But while the mechanics of his story, including his battle against dystonia, are compelling, it was his music making that truly left us spellbound.
Classically Speaking: JoAnn Falletta, A Pair Of Lovers And A Waltz
It says right in the chorus that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tale of woe. But according to conductor JoAnn Falletta, so was the war experience of Maurice Ravel, and that turmoil is found in his piece La Valse.
Classically Speaking Presents Conductors In Conversation
As the musical world faces the trials of 2020’s upheaval, Classically Speaking continues to bring you the voices of leading classical musicians. In this case, a look at the future of the orchestra – broadcast live via YouTube and Facebook Live on August 17, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.
Classically Speaking: Not A Moment Too Soon – Joel Thompson And ‘The Seven Last Words Of The Unarmed’
Joel Thompson’s choral/orchestral work The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed is an example of music facing a societal conversation and traumatic event head-on. The piece was performed in Nashville two seasons ago, and it hasn’t become any less relevant in the meantime.
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