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 ...

Season after season, the Amadeus Concert Ensemble has taken its audience in the Cathedral Concert Series on a number of enlightening journeys, sometimes to familiar locales, but just as often, to ...

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 ...

It came as no real surprise that Maestro Aram Demirjian chose to open the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. After all, the work is perfect for celebratory ...

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 ...

Whether it’s the flaming father of Hereditary or a visceral murder-suicide cold open in Midsommar that I’ve yet to shake, Aster takes great pleasure in such instances. Then, with Beau Is Afraid, Aster ...

Although the September opening of the 2025-26 Knoxville Symphony Orchestra season is still more than two months off, those in need of a symphonic fix can take in this Friday’s Annual Independence Day ...

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 ...