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Violinist Stephen Miahky makes his debut with the Blair String Quartet

Classical musicians seldom get to feel like rock stars. But violinist Stephen Miahky got that chance while still a doctoral student at Rutgers University. The Dalai Lama was touring the U.S., and...

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Music Review: NSO and pianist Olga Kern offer up some ravishing Rachmaninoff

Why on earth would Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra devote their entire concert this weekend at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center to the music of that arch-Romantic Sergei...

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Music Review: At Ingram Hall, Blair String Quartet debuts a new first violinist

The Blair String Quartet changes personnel about as frequently as the Vatican does, so there was considerable interest in the ensemble’s concert Saturday night at Ingram Hall. Stephen Miahky was making...

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Dance Review: Bandaloop defies gravity at Oz Arts Nashville

It stands to reason that a vertical dance company would know a lot about the heavens. So the dancers of Bandaloop no doubt had a keen sense that it was safe to start their Oz Arts Nashville performance...

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Dance Review: Nashville Ballet takes flight in ‘Swan Lake’

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake may well be the quintessential classical ballet. This sumptuous spectacle seemingly has everything a balletic bird watcher could want: beautiful ballerinas in snow...

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Composer Stephen Paulus was known for his many operas, choral and orchestra...

The classical music world has lost one of its most lyrically inspired composers. Stephen Paulus, best known for his 1982 opera The Postman Always Rings Twice, died Sunday, Oct. 19 at an assisted living...

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Lost and Found: Nashville Symphony performs the music of American composer...

At the end of every one of his piano recitals, the late-great composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff always had to play the same encore, his Prelude in C-sharp minor. Never mind that Rachmaninoff...

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Music Review: Violinist Simone Porter and the NSO play Paganini with a vengeance

Midway through violinist Simone Porter’s rendition of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra on Friday night, a jazz concert threatened to break out. No, Porter didn’t...

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Music Review: Gateway Chamber Orchestra’s wind players serenade Nashville

The chamber orchestra is like the Swiss army knife of classical ensembles. It’s a remarkably versatile musical tool, one capable of performing virtually any style of music using almost any combination...

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Violinist Cornelia Heard celebrates Blair’s 50th-anniversary with a little...

When Blair School of Music violinist Cornelia Heard announces she’s giving a concert with a few of her family and friends, classical music fans pay attention. Her closest associates, after all, include...

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Music Review: Violinist Itzhak Perlman works his magic on a classically savvy...

Few classical musicians are capable of filling an auditorium for a solo instrumental recital anymore. One who still can is the renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman, who performed for a large and...

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Vortex’s concert will feature bells, whistles and one crazy clown

Perhaps music really did begin with some caveman beating two sticks together. That would explain the primal energy that Vortex will release this weekend, when it presents one of its typically kinetic...

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Jazz pianist and MacArthur ‘genius’ grant recipient Vijay Iyer debuts at Oz...

One of the world’s most daring and innovative musicians will be following the yellow brick road to Oz Arts Nashville this weekend. Vijay Iyer, a noted composer, jazz pianist and MacArthur “genius”...

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Music Review: Conductor Hans Graf goes in long-winded pursuit of a musical...

Music director Giancarlo Guerrero is away this weekend, but he’s left the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the hands of two distinguished artists. Hans Graf, a familiar face on the guest conducting...

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Music Review: Vijay Iyer, vamping in Technicolor in the Land of Oz

It’s hard to believe Oz Arts Nashville is not yet a year old. In short order, this adventurous, forwarding-looking venue for the contemporary arts has fundamentally changed the creative landscape of...

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East meets West in ALIAS’ season-opening concert

Connoisseurs of foreign cinema are probably familiar with the name Toru Takemitsu, the great post-war Japanese composer who wrote scores for famed filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara....

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Cotton Club comes to life this weekend at the Schermerhorn

New York City’s Cotton Club was the kind of place F. Scott Fitzgerald was thinking about when he wrote The Great Gatsby. Founded in Harlem during the height of Prohibition, it’s where Tom Buchanan...

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Music Review: ALIAS opens its season with some delightful surprises and a few...

An ALIAS Chamber Ensemble program is a lot like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates: Once inside the concert hall, you never know what you’re going to get. As I perused ALIAS’ program on...

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Music Review: Nashville Symphony and Chorus pay tribute to Stephen Paulus

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more touching and tasteful beginning of a program than the one the Nashville Symphony Orchestra is presenting this weekend at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Music...

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Dance Review: Magic abounds in Nashville Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’

“You should know that I plan to scream my head off as soon as this show is over,” said the nice lady who sat next to me on Saturday afternoon at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for the opening of...

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