Faith can be a safe haven for many of us, providing answers to life’s tough questions and a community to lean on. But just as ...

As much coincidence as it was a deliberate plan, October has become something of a showcase month for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks Series. The concerts this past weekend, as ...

Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price grew up in a middle-class household and attended the New England Conservatory of Music. After her death in 1953, possession of her scores that had not been ...

Although there is peril in describing the current attention devoted to English novelist Jane Austen as a mania, that seems like an almost unavoidable conclusion. From the popularity of Jane Austen ...

She’s won three Grammys, a Pulitzer, and has been composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Next on her plate, composer Jennifer Higdon has written a celebratory fanfare for the Knoxville ...

It would be impossible to find a more timely subject matter for an opera libretto than Stuck Elevator, Knoxville Opera’s latest offering that had four performances this past weekend at the Old City ...

It was almost exactly three years ago that the Knoxville-based drum ensemble Indigenous Vibes first performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. They were back for this past weekend’s Masterworks ...

When first announced by the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, a production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Bijou Theatre seemed like a bold and challenging choice. As it ...

Artistic collaborations come in different shapes and sizes, but none have been more visibly impactful recently in the Knoxville area music community than one this past weekend that offered a ...

we have become beautiful without even knowing it. – from “Nightclub” by Billy Collins I don’t know about you and yours, but a big part of my cohort went into Big Ears 2025 with a lackadaisical ...

Equal parts existentialism and comically whimsical narrative, Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story, which opened last week in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre, is a feast of storytelling that ...

Knowing what we know about Felix Mendelssohn and his artistic attractions and interests, it is exceedingly likely that he would have been superbly delighted with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s ...