When Grammy nominees gather to find who gets the music recording industry’s top prizes Monday, Nashville will be well represented — and not just in the genres Music City is known for. From Nashville Symphony’s 2015 album of music by Joan Tower, which was partially funded through Kickstarter, the track “Stroke” is up for Best […]
Live In Studio C: Pianist Arunesh Nadgir
Middle Tennessee State University Assistant Professor of Piano Arunesh was here for a set of solo piano. Listen /
Clarksville Composer’s Song Cycle Highlights The Humanity Of The “Elephant Man”
In his life, the Englishman Joseph Merrick was destitute and deformed, treated as a sideshow freak and an object of pity. But at the next concert of the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, audiences will be invited to imagine what the world must have looked like from the point of view of the so-called “Elephant Man.” Composer […]
Nashville Gets A Rare Look At One Of Europe’s Most Storied Art Collections
Visitors to Nashville’s Frist Center have a rare opportunity right now: the chance to see works by master artists that are normally displayed where only Europe’s elite can see them. The paintings, tapestries and books belong to one of Spain’s most storied noble families, the House of Alba. Most Americans have probably never heard of […]
Live in Studio C: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble and Tracy Silverman
Listen / The Nashville chamber music collective called ALIAS released its third album this year; the group’s winter concert will be a look back at the recordings made so far, featuring selections from each. That show is at 8pm on Wednesday, February 10 in Blair School of Music’s Turner Recital Hall.
Three Classical Composers Who Defied Tradition By Scoring Films
This weekend, the Nashville Symphony is playing movie-related music from composers you may not associate with the cinema: Leonard Bernstein’s soundtrack to On the Waterfront, a suite of tunes from Prokofiev’s score to the Russian film Lietenant Kije, and a violin concerto in which Eric Korngold quotes melodies from his own film score. Those three […]
Live in Studio C: Blair Student Showcase
Listen / Each year, pupils at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music compete for slots on the annual Student Showcase. It’s one of the highlights of the school’s concert calendar, this year giving eleven undergraduate acts a chance to perform solo and chamber music on Blair’s largest stage. Kristin Whittlesey brought a handful of students to Studio C to give […]
Live in Studio C: Music from the Venetian Ospedale
Listen / Music City Baroque and the Vox Grata women’s choir join forces in an upcoming concert of music written for all-female ensembles in early 18th century Venice.
Live in Studio C: The Blakemore Trio
Listen / The Blair School of Music continues its Signature Series this Friday with a concert by The Blakemore Trio, a faculty ensemble made up of violinist Carolyn Huebl, cellist Felix Wang and pianist Amy Dorfman. They’re playing selections by Beethoven, Schumann, and Dorfman’s teacher from her undergraduate days (who died a few months ago), the […]
All’s Well That Ends Well For Nashville Ensembles’ Delayed Release Based On Shakespeare
Production delays on their new album certainly frustrated Nashville’s ALIAS Chamber Ensemble and Portara Ensemble, but ultimately the groups’ new album release got an apt release date: roughly 400 years after the death of the man who wrote their lyrics. Composer Paul Moravec laughs that William Shakespeare is a sort of silent partner who has […]
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