The KSO's Pops series for this coming
season will be 150% percent bigger than it was last year! Six
concerts instead of four, each one at 8:00 pm at the Knoxville Civic
Auditorium, and each one spotlighting a wildly different hue in the
Pops spectrum. (Note that all are Saturday nights except the October
3 concert, which is a Friday).
Our first touring revue will be
bringing some herbs-- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, to be
specific. AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle put on an unbelievable
show that will leave you Feelin' Groovy. (Interesting that one
of the gentlemen is named Beedle; I'd always thought of Simon and
Garfunkel as “America's Beatles”). So c'mon and take that Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine across the
Bridge Over Troubled Water to the Civic Auditorium on FRIDAY,
October 3, before she says Bye Bye, Love!
From the sublime to the... What's Up,
Pops?! Bugs Bunny cartoons with a live orchestra? Sufferin'
Succotash! I've heard that music a lot. I have kids and I WAS one;
really still am one, as you can plainly see. It sounds really
difficult, wish us luck! Anyone who ever was a kid should come to the
Civic on Saturday, January 17, and get ready to see some new 3D short
films of Tweety Bird and Wiley Coyote!
Broadway artists Melissa Errico and
Stephen Buntrock will share romantic music from stage and screen on
February 7. Les Mis, Phantom, West Side Story, you
know you want it. You fellers out there, if you really
love your girl, Wouldn't it Be Loverly to do something special like this for her a FULL WEEK before Valentine's Day? (And more than just
chocolates from Walgreen's on the actual holiday, one would hope).
You've seen them on the Tonight
Show, Letterman, and
Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve,
or maybe you were fortunate
enough to catch the Broadway show The Jersey Boys.
The Midtown Men will
be Workin' Their
Way Back to the
“boy groups” of the 60's and 70's on
March 14. The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rascals,
and of course Franki Valli and the Four Seasons will all be heard-- there's a mother lode of material there and it will be just
the right Time of the Season
to hear it all again.
I knew
it would happen some day, and
on April 11 it shall: a
chance to play the music of
Queen. Rock n' Roll for sure, but WAAAAAAYY more than three chords.
Windborne's Music of Queen will Rock You!!
I'm at a loss for song titles in this segment because, well,
y'know... My favorite Queen songs are Bicycle Race, Party,
Killer Queen, and Tie
your Mother Down, to
give you an idea of what to expect. Bohemian
Rhapsody
and I go all
the way
back to
it's release
in April of 1976, my
freshman year in high school.
My parents and I had gone to the Outer Banks for April vacation; it
was in the upper 90's for 4 days straight, all the way up into
Northern New England. I was on a towel with a transistor radio,
waiting impatiently for WNBC to play it. The
hottest ever
Boston Marathon, called “The Run for the Hoses,” began at noon on
APRIL 19, 1976
when the temperature was 100 degrees. That's
hot.
Elvis
Presley recorded hundreds of songs. There's no
telling what Terry Mike Jeffrey will pull out of his Blue
Suede Shoes
on May 9, and That's
All Right!
By
the time I was listening to pop music, Elvis was into things like
Suspicious
Minds, Burnin'
Love, and
Kentucky
Rain.
I kindly missed the boat on all of the earlier Elvis hubbub, I'm sort
of a latent baby boomer. But I'm sure Love
Me Tender
was a slow dance at the prom for some of you...
Talk about something for everyone!
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