Nashville Symphony Invites Nashville Singers to Perform at Schermerhorn Symphony Center

Make plans now to enjoy the Regions Free Day of Music on October 1st. This hugely popular event invites the entire community to Schermerhorn Symphony Center to enjoy free musical performances all day long and into the night. Part of the Nashville Symphony's mission to make their concert hall accessible to everyone, the  Regions FREE Day of Music will feature a wide variety of local ensembles including a 45-minute performance by Nashville Singers at 6pm. 

Priest Lake Presbyterian Church To Host
"An Evening with the Nashville Singers"
This Saturday!

The concert starts at 7pm. The church is located at 2787 Smith Springs Road. We were booked to perform here on May 7, but a tornado caused major damage to the church sanctuary. The church has been working all summer long to complete the repairs. Nashville Singers is honored to be the first group to perform in the new sanctuary.  Proceeds will benefit the Priest Lake Presbyterian Church choir. To purchase a ticket, please contact Kathy Ware at kware47@comcast.net .

Video of the Week        

The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated by The Grammys and The National Endowment for the Arts with Lifetime Achievement Awards, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, sung for two presidents in the White House and winners of five Grammy® Awards, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that spans over 70 years and shows no signs of diminishing. The Blind Boys of Alabama formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939.  

Editor's Note: I had the pleasure of which this group live about six years ago when they performed at Carthage College in Wisconsin.

Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace

Grandioso - Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played grandly.

Grave - Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played very slow and serious.

Grazioso - Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played gracefully.

Harmony - Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.

Homophony - Music written to be sung or played in unison.

Intermezzo - Short movement or interlude connecting the main parts of the composition.

Introduction - The opening section of a piece of music or movement.

Libretto - A book of text containing the words of an opera.

Ligature - Curved line connecting notes to be sung or played as a phrase.

Madrigal - A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices, usually without accompaniment.

Quote of the Week      

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder   

7:00PM    Warm-up 

7:10PM   Tonight

7:20PM    My Lord and I

INTRO TAYLOR WILSON

7:30PM    Home on the Range

7:40PM    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

INTRO HARLAN WILSON

7:50PM    Satin Doll

INTRO ED LUKE

8:00PM    Somewhere Over the Rainbow

8:10PM    Intermission Song

8:20PM    Business Meet

8:30PM    Break

8:40PM    Dear Hearts & Gentle People

INTRO BRYAN PATRICK

8:50PM    Happy Together

INTRO HARLAN WILSON

9:00PM    Shenandoah

INTRO QT BY BRANDON MCCADDIN

9:00PM    Great Getting Up Morning (Quartet)

INTRO SLOAN YARBOROUGH

9:05PM    Danny Boy

INTRO QT BY TODD WILSON

9:20PM    That First Day In Heaven (Quartet)

9:25PM    Man in the Mirror

9:35PM    Lion Sleeps Tonight

THANK YOUS BY TODD WILSON

9:45PM    Impossible Dream

9:55pm CLOSING REMINDERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS