Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

I asked King Solver to read from her new book.

Okay, this is a passage where Livia is, she's remembering when she was 17 years old, and she entered a competition in which the winner would play a piano concerto with the Knoxville Symphony.

and she wins and she has had a big fight with her mama she needed a dress for this and her mama was not going to spend that kind of money and she just thought that Olivia was getting above herself thinking she could win this competition but she in fact does so this is what happens My triumph in the preliminaries and then on stage with all those exquisitely black-clad adults, heads cocked, bows tilted at the ready as I threw my whole upper body into the falling minor second, falling minor third of the opening motif was the peak of my 17 years.

My quailing heart and steady hands cast a net over a giant hall and transfixed the audience until they stood on their feet applauding at the end.

You just heard, um, m- the announcement about next week's show.

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

We, uh, you've heard a lot of things in the news about symphony orchestras in the past week or so.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has been around how many years? We'll ask Aram Demirjian, the, uh, conductor of the, uh, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

He joins us right now.

Good morning.

Good afternoon, Bob.

I'm great.

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If you are caller 10 right now, you're going to win a couple of tickets to the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

This is going to be a really cool show.

It's called Icon, The Voices That Changed Music.

And it's Friday the 9th at 8 o'clock, Tennessee Theater.

That's another reason to go, because it's at the Tennessee Theater.

And what you're going to hear is powerhouse vocalist... joining the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for a tribute to the voices who changed music.

Think of Michael Jackson.

I'm going to look it up on the break.

How about that? Because I love the jewel that we have in the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

It is an amazing place.

um opportunity to get out and just really immerse yourself and um just the quality of their music and you can get downtown and go to that wonderful um theater that we have and you can get dinner down there go get some cruise farm ice cream afterwards and it'll be fun it'll be a great great weekend and Anyway, let's get back to the other hour of the Bob Yarbrough Show News Talk 98.7.

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So we're going to learn more about the housing market today at 11 o'clock, all right? I've got Knoxville Symphony Orchestra tickets to give away.

They've got a really unusual show coming up Sunday.

Have you heard about this show, Jennifer?

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Let's go ahead and give away these Knoxville Symphony Orchestra tickets.

This is for the Sunday afternoon performance at 2.30 at the Bijou Theater.

She's a challenge to just uh a uh puts on a great show and you sit there go cellist puts on a great show yeah yeah she really does

well and she's one of the artists who's collaborating with the knoxville symphony orchestra this year which you know that's a cool thing that big ears does is uh they often have local artists of various kinds and kso is almost always part of the programming one way or another oh

yeah yeah, it's, uh, uh, it's a great, uh, great four day weekend.

Uh, the, uh, we always look forward to it.