Pottery, art, and music will entertain children and adults in classes at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge in February.
Pottery classes, taught by professional clay artist Sherrie Carrie, will be:
Pipe organ featured at Oak Ridge Symphony concert
Malcolm Matthews
The pipe organ will be the featured instrument at the Feb. 2 Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra concert at First United Methodist Church.
Conducted by Maestro Dan Allcott, ORSO will perform “Incidental Music to L’Orfeo” by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and “Elegy” by Elliott Cook Carter (1908-2010).
ORSO will join guest artist Malcolm Matthews, Knoxville native and 2012 American Guild of Organists National Young Artist finalist, in performing the “Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G Minor” by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963).
See Oak Ridge mayor play at Rock to Bach Music Festival
Members of the Ridge City Ramblers, who will play at the Rock to Bach Music Festival, are, from left, Gary Coleman, Mary Tuskan, Scott Linn, Abbie Hoerner, Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan and Steve Reddick. (Submitted photo)
Not every city has a mayor who plays a banjo in a band.
Oak Ridge does.
Mayor Tom Beehan and five other musicians are members of The Ridge City Ramblers. The band will perform at Oak Ridge’s third Rock to Bach Music Festival on Jan. 26 at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Pollard Auditorium.
Isotone concert Saturday honors Russian physicist
Scott Eddlemon with his collection of “instruments” to be used in the playful “Labware Leggiero” at Saturday night’s Isotone concert at Pellissippi State. (Submitted photo)
The Isotone concert on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College will offer an assortment of instruments, talents and music in honor of a great Russian physicist and human rights activist.
The instruments range from the school’s new Steinway concert grand piano to a violin to glass beakers, flasks, and test tubes. Remember, isotone is both a music and physics term.
The talents include Japanese world-class pianist and East Tennessee newcomer Emi Kagawa, composer Andrew Sauerwein of Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss., and violinist and former concertmaster Susan Eddlemon and her husband Scott Eddlemon, principal percussionist with the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and founder of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association’s Isotone Concerts.
Klezmer band part of Rock to Bach Music Festival Jan. 26
Members of the Dor L’Dor Klezmer Band are, from left, Wes Lunsford, Jon Walton, Joe Christian, Jeff Ramey, Ken Brown, Steve Brown, Rachel Brown, and Susan Shorr Brown. (Submitted photo)
One of the groups that will perform at the third Oak Ridge Rock to Bach Music Festival on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Pollard Auditorium is the Dor L’Dor Klezmer Band.
“Your father would love us,” said band member Ken Brown. “But we’re not your father’s klezmer band.”
The band features a singer and eight other performers on three trombones, clarinet, mandolin, piano, bass, and drums. The group plays jazz, waltzes, and slow dancing tunes, as well as klezmer music (including a klezmerized version of “Stars and Stripes Forever”).
Weekend of Irish music, culture, fun scheduled for February
Traditional Irish Arts of Knoxville has organized a weekend of Irish music, culture, and fun in February at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge and Boyd’s Jig and Reel in Knoxville.
It’s the 5th Annual Tune Junkie Weekend, and it will feature workshops, sessions, and a showcase concert.
The weekend kicks off on Friday, Feb. 17, with an open house and staff session at the Historic Grover Theater. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the session begins at 7 p.m., a press release said.
Nonprofits organize February concert with Peter Mayer, folk singer-songwriter
High Places Community Church and Friends of the Grove are sponsoring a Peter Mayer concert on Feb. 8 at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge.
Mayer is a folk singer/songwriter from Minnesota who has performed in Oak Ridge before and has been well-received.
Renowned pianist to debut in Isotone Concert
Emi Kagawa
Andrew Sauerwein
World-class pianist and East Tennessee newcomer Emi Kagawa will make her debut here in the Isotone concert on Saturday, Jan. 19—the third concert in the Chamber Music Series of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College.
A native of Osaka, Japan, Kagawa has been active as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, and Japan.
Oak Ridge Community Band has showcase concert Jan. 27
The Oak Ridge Community Band will present their annual Showcase Concert on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3:30 p.m. in the historic Grove Theater Performing Arts Center.
The Community Band wants to remind all those people who enjoy the community band summer concerts in Oak Ridge’s A.K. Bissell Park that this is the same band performing as brass, woodwind, percussion, and other groups with an entertaining variety of musical selections for this concert, which traditionally attracts a large audience.
Band members and area musicians always look forward to the Showcase Concert because it gives them the opportunity to perform in small ensembles. Among the groups performing in the Jan. 27 concert will be the Silver Winds Flute Choir, the Tanasi Winds Quintet, a tuba-euphonium ensemble, the Ultimate Brass ensemble, the Secret City Winds Quintet, a percussion group, and clarinet soloist Morrie Bowden playing a medley of Benny Goodman swing tunes accompanied by the band.
Christmastide Choir Festival at First Presbyterian Sunday
A Christmastide Festival, featuring four church choirs, will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, at First Presbyterian Church, Oak Ridge Turnpike at Lafayette Drive. The public is invited.
In addition to the First Presbyterian choir, the choirs from the Grace Covenant, First United Methodist, and Unitarian Universalist churches in Oak Ridge are also singing.
Christmastide is traditionally the period from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, which falls on Jan. 6. This Christian feast day, the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas, commemorates the visitation of the Three Magi (three wise kings) to the Baby Jesus.
It also celebrates the revelation of God the Son as a human being in Jesus Christ, said the Rev. Sharon Youngs, pastor at First Presbyterian Church.
Rock to Bach Music Festival returns to Oak Ridge Jan. 26
Imagine Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms walking one way as they pass the Beatles walking in the other direction.
That’s the mental image you might have if you attend Oak Ridge’s third Rock to Bach Music Festival on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Pollard Auditorium.
“Rock to Bach” is an all-day music festival presented by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association as a benefit for ORCMA music organizations, such as the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
More than a dozen groups will perform rock, pop, blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, Big Band, swing, klezmer, and classical music.
Carolers at Oak Ridge Library on Thursday
The Oak Ridge High School Madrigal Singers will perform at noon Thursday at the Oak Ridge Public Library.
The students sing routinely in many languages and perform music from many time periods, Renaissance to modern, a press release said. Several participate in All East and All State choirs, and many receive college scholarships to help them pursue their music studies.
