Book of the Week: Classical Nashville

Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is centered in a web of often-competing contradictions.
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Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is centered in a web of often-competing contradictions.

Order this book from the Vanderbilt University Press.

Nashville Symphony closes out summer festival

This weekend is your last chance to catch the Nashville Symphony before the musicians close out their busiest season ever and take a much-needed summer break. Tonight and Saturday, the ensemble performs the third and final concert in its First Tennessee Summer Festival with a program highlighting Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn. The conductor will be Scott Yoo, music director of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival; he'll also serve as the featured soloist on Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3.

Show time is 7:30 p.m. at Schermerhorn Symphony Center

Tickets are $32.50-$72.50