Alias Chamber Music Ensemble, March 7 at Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music This adventurous classical chamber group is made up primarily of Nashville Symphony Orchestra musicians. Although these guys can play anything you put on their music stands, they prefer the music of living composers (as opposed to the moldy, dead kind, of course). So in March they’ll feature the music of Gabriela Lena Frank, a 34-year-old composer and pianist of Peruvian-Jewish-Chinese heritage who spices her classical compositions with the sonic flavors of Latin America.
Alias will perform one of her most colorful works, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for string quartet. The program will also include Bernstein’s Three Meditations From Mass for Cello and Piano along with Brahms’ Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano. Tickets are $12 ($10 with season pass and $5 for students), and all proceeds benefit the Martha O’Bryan Center.
For information, call (800) 838-3006.
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, March 24 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center The motto of this outstanding chamber group is “Music Without Boundaries,” and indeed this ensemble does just about everything differently. If the musicians want to play something twice on the same program, they do it.
If they want to play pop and classical music side by side, they do it. This time, they’re taking a different approach to Gershwin, looking not at his jazz roots but his Jewish heritage. To that end, music director Paul Gambill has invited the Brave Old World klezmer band to perform with the NCO.
The concert, part of a weeklong American-Jewish music festival, will include the world premiere of Blair School of Music professor Michael Rose’s Arguing With God—Concerto for Klezmer and Orchestra along with, of course, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Tickets are $19 to $69. Call 256-6546.
Blakemore Trio performs Haydn’s Trio in E-flat major, Mendelssohn’s Trio in D minor and George Rochberg’s Summer of 1990 at 8 p.m. Jan.
19 at Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music. Call 322-7651.
Baritone Bo Skovhus, a Danish opera singer and Mozart specialist (the guy sings a mean Don Giovanni), performs in recital at 8 p.
m. Jan. 21 at Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music.
Call 322-7651.
Stones River Chamber Players performs Stravinsky’s Octet for Winds, Warshauer’s Time to Blossom (for soprano, flute, cello and piano) and Osterfield’s Sextet for Winds, Piano and Double Bass at 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 29 at Hinton Hall, Wright Music Building at Middle Tennessee State University. For more information, go to mtsu.
edu/~music/srcpabout.html.
Weilerstein Duo—featuring the noted husband-and-wife duo of violinist Donald Weilerstein and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein—perform a guest chamber music recital at 8 p.
m. Feb. 3 at the Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music.
Call 322-7651.
Guitarist William Yelverton joins the Tennessee Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Spanish (and Spanish-flavored) music that will include Rodrigo’s Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre, Bizet’s Carmen Suite and Ravel’s Bolero. The concert is 7:30 p.
m. Feb. 5 at Tucker Hall, Middle Tennessee State University.
Call 898-1862.
Guitarist Michael Cedric Smith performs 19th century classical guitar works at 8 p.m.
Feb. 17 at Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music. Call 322-7651.
Violinist Mark O’Connor plays his piece For the Heroes with Nashville Symphony Orchestra. The program will also feature music from Adolphus Hailstork’s Symphony No. 3 and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.
3, 8 p.m. March 1-3 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
Call 687-6400 for tickets.
Pianist Peter Serkin plays the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, a big, grizzly bear of a piece, with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Arild Remmereit.
The program also includes Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 in D minor and Ned Rorem’s Fantasy and Polka at 8 p.m.
March 15-17 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Call 687-6400 for tickets.
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra perform in their trademark big-band style, 8 p.
m. March 21 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Call 687-6400 for tickets.
Tennessee Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra presents a chamber music concert featuring Handel’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 and Britten’s Simple Symphony, among other pieces. It’s at 3 p.
m. March 25 at First United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro. Call 898-1862.
Nashville Opera wraps up its 2006-07 season with performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, at 7 p.m. April 12 and 8 p.
m. April 14 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Call 255-ARTS (2787) for tickets.
Blair String Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet (with pianist Charlene Harb) at 8 p.m.
April 13 at Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music. Call 322-7651.
Emanuel Ax and Edgar Meyer, America’s foremost classical pianist and bass player, respectively, join forces for an evening of chamber music, 8 p.
m. April 17 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Call 687-6400 for tickets.
Tennessee Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring arias and songs from Puccini to Broadway. Soprano Oksana Krovytska and tenor Kip Wilborn will star in this concert at 7:30 p.m.
Apr. 23 at Tucker Theater, Middle Tennessee State University. Call 898-1862.
Alias Chamber Ensemble performs J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 199, “My Heart is bathed in blood,” along with Michael Daugherty’s Paul Robeson Told Me, Kevin Puts’ And Legions Will Rise and Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, 8 p.
m. May 12 in Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music. Call (800) 838-3006.
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