It goes without saying that Tim Burton’s cleverly stylized 1988 film, Beetlejuice, has legions of fans. Based on the crowd in the Tennessee Theatre lobby Tuesday evening, the Broadway musical stage ...

As the story from 1943 goes—composer Florence Price once wrote a letter to Maestro Serge Koussevitsky asking him to consider programming her music with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In introducing ...

Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony finds its way into all sorts of celebratory occasions, magically taking on the emotions and intent of every moment in time in which it appears. For the Knoxville ...

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 ...

Symphony orchestra rosters are generally very stable, but it is inevitable that both professional ambitions and personal needs produce some turnover of player personnel. Amazingly, the Knoxville ...

One of the most interesting ironies of the American cinema is that the now-classic holiday television vehicle, the 1946 Frank Capra film, It’s A Wonderful Life, was not initially successful, either ...

There is no greater example in literature of the boundlessness of childhood imagination than the story of Peter Pan. Created in a number of vehicles by J.M. Barrie including his 1904 play, Peter Pan, ...

Roughly a year ago, Marble City Opera updated its claim in the site-suggestive and outdoor operatic production categories with a very notable take on Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah staged in the ...

Molly Smith Metzler’s play, Cry It Out, may be set in a backyard in the New York City suburb of Port Washington, Long Island, but it covers a lot of territory inhabited by new mothers—unaware husbands ...

As reported previously, ACE is now the Amadeus Concert Ensemble—a reflection of its sizable presence in Knoxville’s classical music scene and the impressive scale of its performances with full ...

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 ...

In a concert that brought not only musical drama but real-life drama, organist Byongsuk Moon delivered a masterful performance to officially christen the Casavant Frères Pipe Organ, Opus 3927 at the ...