This weekend, the Nashville Ballet performs a dance about immigrants that began in the pubs of London. Sergeant Early’s Dream delves into the difficulties that drove so many Irish and Scottish in the 18th and 19th centuries to leave their homes and forge new lives in America.
Spanish Pianist To Make His Nashville Debut With An Unconventional (But Well-Loved) Concerto
Spanish pianist Javier Perianes makes his Nashville debut this weekend, playing a somewhat unusual concerto with the Nashville Symphony. Camille Saint-Saens’s Second is now the most performed of the composer’s piano concertos, but early audiences weren’t sure what to make of it.
Nashville Chamber Ensemble Uses Music To Remember A Vibrant Mind Lost To The Holocaust
The broad strokes of Etty Hillesum’s life before World War II were not particularly remarkable. Her father was a Dutch school master, and her mother was one of many Russian Jews who fled the pogroms of their homeland to make a new life Western Europe. Hillesum herself wasn’t a particularly good student, although she was […]
Nashville Symphony Plays The Original Soundtrack To Space Travel, Written Decades Before It Began
Spaceflight was just a theoretical possibility when Gustav Holst wrote his musical exploration of our solar system.
Live in Studio C: Nolan Harvel, guitar and Chloe Harvel, violin
Listen / Teenagers Nolan and Chloe Harvel are a pair of siblings that share a love of music and a talent for playing. For their visit to Studio C, the Harvels were accompanied by Maeve Brophy, a pianist on the staff at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music.
Live in Studio C: Carol McClure and Clara Warford, harp
Listen / Nashville harpist and teacher Carol McClure’s fine album of Christmas favorites is often heard on Classical 91.1 during December. She brought student Clara Warford in to Studio C to give us a live performance of music spanning this month of holidays and feast days.
Live in Studio C: Brass Arts Quintet
Listen / The Brass Arts Quintet is a faculty ensemble at a university known for its stellar brass program, Tennessee Tech. The group brought us selections from their annual holiday concert, including several of the members’ own arrangements of Christmas classics. Raquel Rodriguez and Chris McCormick play trumpet. Greg Danner is on French horn. The […]
Live in Studio C: Portara Ensemble
Listen / Portara Ensemble will look beyond Christmas in its concert this week, with choral music about Advent and the deep night of Winter. The full program starts at 7pm Friday evening at Brentwood’s Church of the Good Shepherd, and again at 7pm Saturday night at Christ the King Church in Nashville. Artistic director Jason […]
Live in Studio C: Violinist Jessica Blackwell, Pianist Megan Gale and Composer Christopher Farrell
Listen / Last year around this time, violinist Jessica Blackwell told her friend, violist and composer Christopher Farrell, that she’d really like him to write a violin solo. What’s more, she challenged him to move beyond the chamber music he’d written to date and compose a piece for orchestra. The end result gets its world […]
Live in Studio C: Belmont Brass Quintet
Listen / The Belmont Brass Quintet from Belmont University brought a cornucopia of music for our Thanksgiving listening, ranging from a Baroque air and Renaissance dance to familiar hymns of gratitude and a playful contemporary composition. The ensemble is made up of trumpeters Joel Treybig and Patrick Kunkee, hornist Radu Rusu, trombonist Jeff Phillips and James […]