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24-Hours only! $15 Tickets to see Mariza at the Schermerhorn Symphony

Mariza
Monday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Concert Presented Without Orchestra
With her stunning voice and striking sense of style, Mariza is the world's best-known performer of fado, the urban folk music of Portugal. Fado is often compared to American blues or Spanish flamenco, and Mariza's yearning melodies conjure dramatic stories of love and loss amid the winding cobblestone streets of Lisbon. She'll light the Schermerhorn with her dynamic stage presence when she makes a rare visit to Nashville on Monday, March 9.

The savings begin TODAY, Tuesday, March 3 at 11 a.m. and end TOMORROW, Wednesday March 4 at 11 a.m.!

$15 Tickets

To receive this discount, use promo code 6007. Purchase via our website, nashvillesymphony.org, or over the telephone by calling 615.687.6400.

Please note that the special ticket price will only display once you are logged on to our site with promo code 6007.

Visit the Nashville Symphony website to learn more.
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Nashville Symphony will be webcast live- January 13

We saw the Nashville Symphony tonight in Centennial Park

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Nashville Symphony at Centennial Park
June 24, 2008
Centennial Park
The Nashville Symphony and Assistant Conductor Kelly Corcoran return to Nashville's Centennial Park for a second time as part of this summer' Regions Community Concerts. An event for the entire family, the program includes many audience favorites.

~I'll add pictures of the program tomorrow...Sorry for the delay~
C.S. Webbspun

See the Nashville Symphony for free

Symphony in the Park concerts.

Dates:
June 11 at East Park
June 17 and June 24 at Centennial Park
June 25 at Lafayette’s Key Park
July 2 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center
July 4 at Riverfront Park as part of the Fourth of July festivities.

Visit Nashville Symphony or call 687-6500 for more info.

A Tidbit of Nashville News for the Weekend

New Restaurant
B & C Market BBQ
900 Rosa L. Parks Blvd (8th Avenue North)
770-0032
This restaurant is the first new tenant during the ongoing renovations of the Market House section of the Farmers Market. Serving up breakfast and lunch. Menu items include pulled pork, beef brisket, ribs, cobblers, breakfast biscuits and more.
Hours are Mon - Sun, 7am - 3pm

Extended Hours
Agave
118 12th Avenue South. 254-9997
Agave is now open for lunch. They also have an extended catering menu and offer delivery. Hours are Monday - Friday, 11am - 3am and Saturday - Sunday, 4pm - 3am

Scat Springs at The Standard
Friday, February 15
The Standard
167 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard (8th Avenue North)
254-1277
7 - 9pm
$39.95
Scat Springs "Mr. Entertainment" performs. Ticket price includes a prime rib dinner and the show.

Discussions about the Bible: Making Ends Meet
Friday, February 15 and Saturday, February 16
Christian Science Reading Room
202 6th Avenue North
256-1068
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Join in on discussions about the Bible: Making Ends Meet.
Bring your lunch. Everyone is welcome.

"Inspirational Spaces"
Exhibit Closing Soon
Closing Sunday, February 17
Main Library
615 Church Street
862-5800
Free
Last chance to view the inspiring and private spaces of five iconic
writers: Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor,
and William Faulkner. "Inspirational Spaces," an exhibit of rich sepia
tone photographs by Nashville's own Bob Schatz.

$20 Tickets to the Symphony
Through February 17, tickets for all 2007/08 Nashville Symphony
Classical concerts scheduled from March-June are just $20! Or, upgrade to the
best seats in the house for just $50! Choose from all remaining SunTrust Classical Series concerts, First Tennessee Summer Festival concerts and more. Offer is available online at nashvillesymphony.org, at the Nashville Symphony Box Office, or by calling 687-6400.

Our Nashville Symphony has been nominated for two Grammies

The Nashville Symphony has been nominated for two Grammys for its recording of works by American composer Joan Tower, which was conducted by Music Advisor Leonard Slatkin.
"Made in America" was nominated in the categories of Best Classical Album and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.



"It was an honor for the Nashville Symphony to release a CD of works by Joan Tower, who is by far one of the most exciting composers of our time," said Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO of the Nashville Symphony. "We are thrilled to be in the company of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others, with these two important Grammy nominations."



Read the entire story in the Nashville Business Journal.

Wanna tour the Schermerhorn Symphony Center?

Here is the info that you need to do that.

~C.S. Webbspun

The Schermerhorn Symphony Center offers building tours, free of charge, given by highly-trained and enthusiastic volunteer docents, some members of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra League. Tours will begin promptly from the West Atrium and will last approximately 50 minutes. No reservations are required for these tours if your group is under 15 people. For groups of more than 15 people, please call the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Tour Hotline at 615.687.6580 and leave a message with details about the group and contact information for scheduling. Please allow at least 72 hours advanced notice for your tour to be scheduled.

All scheduled tours are subject to change depending upon previously scheduled event activity, we therefore highly recommend that you call us prior to arriving for a tour.

To check the tour availability and the most up-to-date information call the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Tour Hotline at 615.687.6580 prior to visiting the hall.

Beginning on September 5, 2007, tours will be held Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 1:00 pm.

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

Classical recordings 2: Music's seduction

Fevered passion often overtook audiences as they devoured the piano concertos of the 19th century

John Pitcher
3/28/2004 --

A hush fell over the room as the tall, fragile-looking young man with the long brown hair walked to the piano and slowly, sensuously removed his pair of green silk gloves. Moments later, he unleashed an orgy of octaves and a torrent of sound, driving his audience into frenzy.
The pianist, of course, was the great 19th-century Hungarian keyboard wizard Franz Liszt, and his legendary concerts were often more Saturnalia than musical soirée. Women shrieked and swooned in ecstasy, tossing their jewelry on stage. They fought over the gloves he purposely left on the keyboard; one woman reportedly snatched the stub of Liszt's cigar, carrying it in her bosom until her dying day.

This was the age of romanticism with a capital “R,” a time when the virtuoso was king and when composers were primarily interested in writing music of extraordinary immediacy and lyrical expression.

Liszt was the 19th century's most famous pianist, but he had lots of company. Every major European city, from London to Moscow, was home to an important composer-pianist (unlike today, almost all great 19th-century composers were also pianists), and they were all expected to write piano concertos. These are works — arranged for piano soloist and orchestra — of high musical drama, display pieces that allowed pianists to showcase their chops while indulging their lyrical fancies.

The following is a list of 10 Romantic piano concertos, listed in chronological order with their recommended recordings, that were once staples of the repertoire but are now seldom heard. They are expressions of a simpler and less cynical time — when composers were not afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. No doubt, the unapologetic sentimentality of these pieces caused them to lose favor with a modern and anti-Romantic public. Yet the lush lyricism and sheer sonic beauty of these pieces can still stir the emotions. They are all gems waiting to be rediscovered.

Beach: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 (1899). Amy Beach was the first American woman to achieve international renown as a composer. That's actually an extraordinary fact because like most women of her time, she was strongly discouraged from pursuing a professional career. In fact, she had to teach herself composing and orchestration.
Her Piano Concerto is an imposing piece — nearly 40 minutes of pure passionate intensity. The piano writing is lush, romantic and energetic, and the orchestral part is as warm and lyrical as anything by Brahms. (Recommended recording: pianist Alan Feinberg with Kenneth Schermerhorn and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Naxos).

To read the entire article visit the Democrat & Chronicle from Rochester, New York.

Swan Lake

We are going to see Swan Lake, performed by the Nashville Ballet, this Saturday. This will be my first visit to the ballet in...umm.....I don't even know how long. I look forward to a fascinating experience and performance. I will let you know what I thought either Sunday or Monday.

C. S. Webbspun
(creator of the Nashville Experience)

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Swan Lake
Friday, April 27 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 29 at 2:00 pm
Andrew Jackson Hall at TPAC
Ticket Information

Perhaps the world’s best-known classical ballet, Swan Lake tells the timeless story of love found, lost and recaptured. Featuring a full cast of extraordinary dancers, beautiful sets and choreography, the ballet is accompanied by The Nashville Symphony, performing Tchaikovsky’s enduring score.

In the story, Prince Siegfried falls in love with Princess Odette after watching her beautiful moonlit dance. But Odette is turned into a swan each morning by an evil sorcerer. The spell can be broken only if a prince pledges eternal love to the princess. However, Siegfried is tricked into proclaiming his love for the sorcerer’s own daughter Odile, who is Odette’s evil twin.

For more than a century, Swan Lake has engaged audiences and inspired new generations of dancers, who are challenged by the ballet’s technical demands and full range of human emotions — from hope to despair, terror to tenderness, melancholy to ecstasy.

This project is funded under an agreement with the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.