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September 10, 2006
Well Now, Nashville's Uptown
Music City USA added a new star to her crown last night with the opening of a new performing arts center and a gala concert to go with it.
Leonard Slatkin and Frederica von Stade? These aren't your hot new names in high-falutin' music, but their relative heft nonetheless commands certain respect for our state capital's continued ascendance.
Of course, I don't suppose it would be Nashville without a banjo, and, sure enough, there occurred a Triple Concerto for [get this] Banjo, Double Bass and Tabla. (The composer is not named in the review).
I'm never one to advocate the programming of excerpts, but a celebrity-studded opening night crowd aren't the right bunch to sit through a full Mahler, and a couple of movements from "Resurrection" are, I suppose, a good way to show off all the bells and whistles. It's a fundraising thing.
I've checked out the season schedule, though, and it appears that, even with some typical schlock thrown in, Schermerhorn audiences will be treated a mite better than will Chattanooga Tivoli ones.
(Tennessean links courtesy of Sharon Cobb)
Diary of an Epicure | By joe lance | 09:02 AM