These days my musical life has been filled with many wonderful sources of inspiration: Discovering and presenting contemporary classical music with Intersection, advocating for music education with Music Makes Us, guest conducting all around the world with the Legend of Zelda tour, and working with the Nashville Symphony Chorus preparing the masterpieces of classical repertoire. […]
Rare Stradivarius Stars In A Concerto Commissioned By The Nashville Symphony — And It’s A Viola
It’s not often the viola gets the spotlight. The alto voice in the string family is most often used to provide harmonic underpinnings and rhythmic structure while other instruments get the showy, hummable passages. But Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon maintains the viola is a virtuosic instrument in its own right that deserves to be […]
Live in Studio C: Felix Wang and Heather Conner
Listen / This week, we welcomed back a longtime friend and met a new one as cellist Felix Wang returned to Live in Studio C with one of the newest faculty members at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, pianist Heather Conner. The pair will perform a concert on March 26 in Blair’s Turner Recital Hall.
Nashville Opera Announces Plans For Classics, New Music and New York Performances
A pair of time-tested audience favorites, Don Giovanni and Carmen, will anchor the Nashville Opera’s 2015-16 season. But between the mainstage bookends of Mozart and Bizet, the other half of the season is made up of the kind of newer works that are putting the company on the national map. The story of the longest-held […]
Live in Studio C: Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait
Listen / Johannes Brahms published three sonatas for the pairing of piano and violin, and next Tuesday Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait will play them all in an 8pm concert at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. They’ve brought one for a live performance in Studio C, marked by conversational passages between the two instruments.
Social History Told Via Song (And Elaborate Costumes) As Taylor Mac Comes To Nashville
Taylor Mac bills his current touring show as a “history of popular music,” terminology that might suggest a lecture or at least a dry, academic concert. In fact, what he’s scheduled to create this weekend at OZ Arts Nashville is a sort of Technicolor performance-art cabaret, layering humor and music over a well-researched structure. Mac’s […]
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 […]
Arts Voices: Symphony’s Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero On The Classical Side Of Music City
I feel truly lucky that my job has allowed me to travel all over the world. I’ve had the opportunity to experience so many different places, from São Paulo to Copenhagen to Kuala Lumpur, but no matter where I go, I feel even luckier that I get to return home to Nashville, Tennessee. Together, we […]
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