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The KSO's October Masterworks program feels like a warm hug

Melony Dodson talks with Aram Demirjian about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, and Demirjian's love for the music of Brahms

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra presents its next Masterworks concert on Thursday and Friday, October 17th and 18th at 7:30pm. As usual, the performances will be given in the magnificent Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville. The program has a "Romantic era" theme and includes the Ballade in A minor by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Symphony No.3 by Brahms, and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, featuring violinist, Paul Huang.

Learn more about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, as well as what sets Brahms' Third Symphony apart from his other symphonies in this interview with conductor, Aram Demirjian. He and Morning Concert host, Melony Dodson, also discuss the relationship between soloist, conductor, and orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and theorize why "new/unfamiliar" music may more challenging to some audience members at first.

Tickets and additional information are available online at https://knoxvillesymphony.com/concert/tchaikovsky-violin-concert/

Melony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.