Listen / Jennifer Kummer and Anna Spina are both Chicago natives who work in Nashville as French horn players for hire: they play orchestral concerts, in the pit at opera productions, and as studio musicians. Between gigs, they’ve prepared a group of duet pieces for the instrument just for our Live in Studio C audience.
Live in Studio C: Jeffrey Williams, Baritone And Jeffrey Wood, Piano
Listen / Earlier this year, Clarksville composer Jeffrey Wood debuted portions of a new song cycle about the so-called Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, with lyrics taken from poems by Kenneth Sherman. Now the entire collection of songs is ready to be performed in full. Wood and baritone Jeffrey Williams offered us a sample of selections, […]
Live In Studio C: Stephen Seifert, Mountain Dulcimer
Listen / Stephen Seifert’s training as a classical pianist shines through his performances on the mountain dulcimer. The instrument is a form of zither traditional to the Appalachian region that is quite user friendly for the beginner but also capable of a high level of sophistication and subtlety in the hands of a musician like […]
Live in Studio C: Agnes Wan, piano
Listen / Former Blair School of Music professor Agnes Wan is back in Nashville this week, and she stopped by our studios with a performance that highlighted her precise and sensitive playing. She brought two selections from Franz Schubert, each composed to sound as if they were improvised on the spot.
Nashville Symphony Kicks Off First-Ever Composer Lab Fellowship
The Nashville Symphony will play music by a young composer from California’s Bay Area this weekend, in a performance that kicks off an intensive, season-long relationship with the artist. 24-year-old Gabriela Smith was one of five composers chosen to take part in a workshops at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center last year. The Nashville Symphony offered […]
Beyond Don Giovanni: The Don Juan Story Retold Through The Centuries
This weekend, the Nashville Opera opens its season with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. It’s a classic tale of a womanizing cad who runs out of luck. The story that forms the basis for the opera was already more than a century-and-a-half old when Mozart set it to music, and it’s been retold many times through the […]
Live in Studio C: Jessica Dunnavant, flute
Listen / Flutist Jessica Dunnavant has a busy concert schedule right now, performing with several ensembles over the coming weeks. But she carved out a little time from her ensemble work to give us an example of the lively solo music that helped make the flute a popular instrument to play in the Baroque era, […]
Live in Studio C: The Dolly Project
Listen / Last year, flutist Deanna Little brought a group of musicians from Middle Tennessee State University to Studio C to perform selections from The Dolly Project, chamber music by area composers inspired by Dolly Parton, specifically her song “Coat of Many Colors.” It tells a story from Parton’s youth and a children’s book she […]
Nashville Symphony Honors Memory Of Longtime Conductor
This weekend, the Nashville Symphony celebrates 70 years of existence and a decade in its concert hall. It’s also using the fist concert of this year’s classical series to honor that building’s namesake: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
Live in Studio C: Gateway Chamber Orchestra and Stephen Seifert, dulcimer
Listen / The Gateway Chamber Orchestra draws on Austin Peay State University’s music faculty as well as symphony and session players from around the region. This season, along with playing works of the great masters, the ensemble is celebrating the diversity of music found in our area. For the opening concert, they’ve invited Stephen Seifert […]