It was by a stroke of chance that Giancarlo Guerrero found himself in charge of an orchestra almost 5,000 miles away from his home in Nashville.
This Week On 91Classical: Featured Music Jan. 13-17
Each day on 91Classical, amid the variety of the day’s playlist, we offer a handful of featured selections at set times:
This Week on 91Classical: Featured Music Jan. 6-10
Each day on 91Classical, amid the variety of the day’s playlist, we offer a handful of featured selections at set times:
Classically Speaking: The Tearjerkers
Since being used to commemorate the funerals of the likes of FDR, JFK and Albert Einstein, Samuel Barber’s famous, lush tearjerker Adagio for Strings has become an unofficial anthem of communal mourning. But the work has also elicited some very different emotions by appearing in some unexpected places, like an episode of Seinfeld or the […]
Classically Speaking: Hearing Beethoven
As a musicologist, Dr. Robin Wallace has devoted much of his career to studying Beethoven. Then his wife, Barbara, went deaf.
Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando Program Welcomes New Class Of Students
The Nashville Symphony announced the newest class of musicians to enter its Accelerando initiative on Friday. Now entering its fourth year, the program aims to prepare gifted young students from diverse backgrounds for careers in classical music through mentoring, performance opportunities and private lessons with Nashville Symphony musicians.
‘SilentWalk’ Invites Participants To Explore Centennial Park Through Music, Meditation and Motion
Listen / Classical audiences are generally expected to be as inconspicuous as possible: sit still, make as little noise as possible and clap only at the appropriate times. But composer Murray Hidary wants to take audiences from passive observers to active participants with an initiative he calls SilentWalk, which he’ll bring to Nashville this week.
Six Questions: Michael Alec Rose On Being ‘The Most Fortunate Composer Alive’
In celebration of 91Classical’s Local Composers Month, we posed six questions to some of Nashville’s classical music creators. For the final installment, get to know a little more about Michael Alec Rose, who is also an Associate Professor of Composition at the Blair School of Music.
With ‘The Fall Of Stag Lee,’ One Nashville Composer Turns A Legendary Murder Into An Opera
Listen / Since the early 20th century, the curious story story of Stag Lee has been woven into music, poetry in art. But local Nashville composer has taken it to the next level, giving the tale an operatic treatment. In 1959, Lloyd Price’s song about the legend of Stagger Lee reached number one on the […]
Six Questions: Composer Timbre Cierpke And The Meeting Of Musical Worlds
In celebration of 91Classical’s Local Composers Month, we posed six questions to some of Nashville’s classical music creators. This week’s featured composer is Timbre Cierpke, who feels equally at home performing and composing both classical and pop music.
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