John Pitcher
Dance Theatre of Tennessee presents an enchanting ‘Coppelia’
MURFREESBORO – What do you do when your boyfriend’s in love with an enameled-eyed doll? We learn the answer in Coppelia, the delightful comic ballet that Dance Theatre of Tennessee is presenting this weekend at MTSU’s Tucker Theatre. First performed in 1870, Coppelia is a visual and sonic feast. This full-length, three-act French charmer features [...]
DTT is dancing in the Boro this weekend
It’s impossible to imagine 19th-century theatre without the literary contributions of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. His short stories and novelettes inspired such diverse works as Offenbach’s famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky’s ballet chestnut The Nutcracker. This weekend in Murfreesboro, Dance Theatre of Tennessee will present another terrific Hoffmann-inspired work, [...]
NSO, Silverman shine in world premiere of Riley’s Palmian Chord Ryddle
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra is warming up this weekend for Carnegie Hall. On Thursday night at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the NSO presented two of the works that will be on its May 12 program in New York City – Terry Riley’s Palmian Chord Ryddle for Electric Violin and Orchestra and Percy Grainger’s The Warriors: [...]
Nashville Ballet presents a visceral and sensuous ‘Rite of Spring’
Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was met with jeers and catcalls during its Paris premiere in 1913. On Friday night in Nashville, the same work drew cheers of delight. Stravinsky’s famous ballet is the highlight of Nashville Ballet’s program this weekend at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The performance is part of a Stravinsky [...]
Nashville Ballet presents Stravinsky’s mighty ‘Rite of Spring’ at TPAC
A performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is always a memorable event. This remarkable ballet about pagan ritual sacrifice has achieved legendary status, in large part because its premiere in Paris in 1913 sparked the most famous (make that infamous) riot in the history of Western music. No other work has as fearsome a [...]
Guerrero and the NSO are positively ‘fandango’ at the Schermerhorn
Giancarlo Guerrero is serving as a kind of tour guide this weekend, taking listeners on a sonic journey through Latin America, Spain and Central Europe. His program with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, which opened Thursday night and runs through Saturday at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, lavishes attention on contemporary composer Roberto Sierra. Thursday’s opening night [...]
