Asked to describe American orchestral music over the last 130 years in a few words, we may find ourselves struggling for a quick answer. Admittedly, that’s probably because our own music history doesn ...

Knoxville will witness a musical first this Sunday when Amadeus Concert Ensemble pairs its orchestra with the towering Casavant Frères organ at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

For a variety of reasons, the January Masterworks concerts of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra always seem to acquire a disproportionate amount of unforeseen drama. For example, it was ten years ago ...

For three nights only, First Take Co. and Fable Hollow Bookshoppe hosted an interactive and gamified theatrical experience, In the Castle of Eternal Sunset, a new play by playwright Charles Green. The ...

Ah, 2025, what a mess! This was one of the more grim years in cinematic history as it looks like we’ve lost another legacy studio to either a streaming platform that may kill the theatrical business ...

The Knoxville Chamber Music Society’s 2025–26 season continued with a captivating program that drew a sizeable and enthusiastic audience. The performance featured two stalwarts from the chamber music ...

Who would have thought that two of our most beloved franchises would work together so well? In Mark Shanahan’s 2021 A Sherlock Carol, Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuths find themselves thrust into the ...

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced that Music Director Aram Demirjian has signed a new four-year contract that will continue his leadership of the orchestra through the 2029-30 season. “We ...

Note for note, minute for minute, Georges Bizet’s Carmen can seem today like one hit tune after another. Interestingly, it didn’t start its operatic life that way, the premiere in 1875 being quite the ...

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 ...

Following its compelling opening Masterworks Series concerts last month, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra embraces an intriguing program for its October concerts this week that feature Edward Elgar’s ...

In the space of only two weeks, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has launched four of its five performance series, with a fifth series opening just days away. The most recent of these season openers ...