Mar 26

Go go Gershwin

If you’re outside Middle Tennessee (or, for that matter, if you’re inside Middle Tennessee) check and see if your local public TV station will carry “Gershwin at One Symphony Place,” an edited version of a Gershwin concert by the Nashville Symphony which aired live on WNPT last September. I love Gershwin, and I love the Nashville Symphony, and I loved the original concert, which PBS stations nationwide will carry — many tonight, others at various times over the next month.

Sep 06

Giancarlo!

I’m getting ready to watch (on TV, unfortunately) the Nashville Symphony play Gershwin under the baton of its new conductor and music director: Nicaraguan-born, Costa Rica-raised Giancarlo Guerrero. (Technically, for contract reasons, he is conductor-designate this year and will become conductor a year from now.) And I love the new ads the symphony is running to introduce him. One will appear above the jump; the other three below.


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