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Lorde dazzles at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor wrapped up her Melodrama World Tour in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The precocious 21-year-old, more famously known by her moniker Lorde, dazzled and danced with reckless abandon as she found a way to make an arena with a seating capacity of 20,000 feel intimate.

Stellar opening performances by indie-rock artist Mitski and rowdy hip-hop duo Run the Jewels worked…

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The power of simplicity: Lang’s 'the little match girl passion'

The power of simplicity: Lang’s ‘the little match girl passion’

I would guess that more people can recite the Cinderella story than can outline War and Peace. The latter endures in part because of its complexity, but simplicity tends to have a longer shelf life. The little match girl passion (2007) by David Lang is a retelling of the classic children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen for four singers who also play percussion, which harnesses the immortal…

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Review: Nashville Opera delivers a powerful and intimate Susannah

Much like the perennial argument over who wrote the “Great American Novel,” there is a parallel debate about the “Great American Opera.” Susannah, a serious contender for the latter crown, was the focus of a Nashville Opera production last week at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Carlisle Floyd’s 1955 opera is set in rural East Tennessee, and it tells the story of a young woman shunned by…

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Black Panther Soundtrack: Diverse, Audacious and Flawed

For many, Black Panther feels like that first breath of oxygen after a long time underwater. Black Panther welcomes a new vision of blackness and presents a new way to comprehend black identity. The soundtrack, titled Black Panther: The Album, Music and Inspired By, undertakes an equally ambitious effort. With African-American rapper, producer, and curator Kendrick Lamar seated at the helm, the…

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Music Review: Immigrant Composers are the Dreamers at Alias’ ‘Unbounded Creativity’ Concert

On Tuesday Feb.6 in Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music, the local troupe of virtuoso classical musicians the Alias Chamber Ensemble presented a concert with a most uncreative title. The program was called “Unbounded Creativity,” which was a little like calling Albert Einstein very smart – it was true but unhelpful in explaining why the artists’ work was worth our attention. Yet the concert…

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A VIP Visit To The Awesome and Astonishing 'Odysseo: Larger Than Life'

A VIP Visit To The Awesome and Astonishing ‘Odysseo: Larger Than Life’

The awesome and astonishing “Odysseo: Larger Than Life” is playing through Oct. 1 in Nashville, and ArtsNash was fortunate to make a VIP visit to the show this week. Sixty-five horses (including 12 breeds from six countries) and 50 artists (from 11 countries) take the audience on a trip to a world of landscapes where dreams become…

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Review: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers soars in Bernstein's Serenade

Review: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers soars in Bernstein’s Serenade

The Nashville Symphony, like many successful orchestras across the United States, has tried in recent years to appeal to a broader audience. One common strategy is to simply program concerts more creatively, often with the incorporation of more modern works and less classical and romantic era masterpieces. Therein lies a significant challenge – obtaining an artistic balance that will please…

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Review: Nashville Ballet and Nashville Symphony present a concert for all seasons at the Schermerhorn

Nashville Ballet has performed many times with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. But on March 24, the two ensembles celebrated a milestone, performing together for the first time inside the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. To mark the occasion, the groups presented an ambitious program that included Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The…

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Review: Nashville Opera Delivers the Goods in Sensuous Carmen

For its final production of the season, Nashville Opera calls on the power of one of music’s most-loved and oft-performed operas, Georges Bizet’s Carmen. Director John Hoomes presents a compelling, well-acted, and beautifully sung treatment of this operatic staple, filled to the brim with all the passion, fire, and lust present in this work. TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall was absolutely packed for…

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Nashville Symphony pulls out the stops for Terry Riley concerto

Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero led the Nashville Symphony on Saturday night at the Schermerhorn with an intriguing program featuring an arrangement of Dietrich Buxtehude’s Chaconne in E minor, Terry Riley’s new organ concerto At the Royal Majestic, and Igor Stravinsky’s ever-popular The Rite of Spring. Buxtehude was a Baroque-era organ master, famed in the late 1600s for his virtuosity and…

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Nashville Concerto Orchestra’s Winter Concert Full of Passion and Meaning

February 18th, 2017 was looking to be just another rainy Saturday for most Nashvillians. However, the dreariness outside created just the right mood for the Nashville Concerto Orchestra’s warm and inviting winter concert. The orchestra is an extension of the non-profit organization “Mozart in Nashville,” and is comprised of Nashville musicians of all levels and professions. Its mission is to…

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Cirque du Soleil invites you to Nashville to experience a world where everything is possible…A world called Varekai, coming to Bridgestone Arena from Aug. 26 through Aug. 30 and presented by Visa S...

An ocean of words has understandably and rightfully been written about Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III and his plays. Some of those words, such as those contained in John Lahr’s brilliant 20...

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Nashville Shakespeare Has Fairy Tale Take on 'Twelfth Night'

Nashville Shakespeare Has Fairy Tale Take on ‘Twelfth Night’

If music be the food of love, play on! The Nashville Shakespeare Festival will perform Twelfth Night, a charming comedy directed by Executive Artistic Director Denice Hicks with an original score composed and performed by Rolin Mains Jan. 8-31.

For the first time, the festival’s winter production will be performed at two locations: Jan. 8-25 at Belmont University’s Troutt Theaterand Jan. 30-31 at

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Skybetter Business Bureau: When Artists Expect to Earn a Living

This is a guest post is by Ken Tabachnick – designer, arts manager, dean and thinker.

I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations.

Recently, three published pieces raised the question of our expectations as artists and how we present our work. (Many thanks to Thomas Cott and You’ve Cott Mailfor alerting us to these and many other salient conversations.) While not all the pieces discuss the same…

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'Rudolph' Star Lexy Baeza Has Prepared Long and Well For Role

‘Rudolph’ Star Lexy Baeza Has Prepared Long and Well For Role

You might say Los Angeles-based performer Lexy Baeza has been preparing for years to play the title character in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical; at the age of eight she played Toto in a production of The Wizard of Oz and more recently was John Darling (as well as an understudy for the role of Peter Pan) in Cathy Rigby’s touring company.

“So I’ve played an animal and a boy before and…

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