Nashville Symphony Announces Free Community Concerts for 2018
Popular annual concert series showcases orchestra at six area parks
Nashville, Tenn. (April 16, 2018) – The Nashville Symphony has unveiled the schedule for its 2018 Community Concerts series, which will showcase the GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra performing music by Bernstein, Brahms, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov and more at six public parks and greenspaces throughout Middle Tennessee.
A local summer tradition that annually draws thousands of concertgoers, the Symphony’s community concerts are an integral part of the organization’s mission to make great music accessible to everyone in the region. Admission to all six performances is free of charge.
The 2018 series returns to Centennial Park on June 7 as part of a special partnership with Musicians Corner. The orchestra will close each performance with John Williams’ Star Wars Main Theme, which was chosen by the public after three rounds of online voting. The complete schedule is listed below:
2018 COMMUNITY CONCERTS SCHEDULE
7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7 Musicians Corner at Centennial Park
7 p.m. Friday, June 8 Cumberland University, Lebanon
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9 Historic Rock Castle, Hendersonville
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12 Southeast Greenspace, Antioch
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 26 Two Rivers Mansion, Donelson
7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 1 Key Park, Lafayette
The Nashville Symphony’s Community Concert series is made possible in part thanks to co-presenting partners Benefits, Inc. and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and thanks to additional support from Vanderbilt University Human Resources, The Village Fund, The Foundry Chiropractic & Upper Cervical, Friends of Historic Rock Castle and Cumberland University.
The GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony has earned an international reputation for its innovative programming and its commitment to performing, recording and commissioning works by America’s leading composers. The Nashville Symphony has released 29 recordings on Naxos, which have received 24 GRAMMY® nominations and 13 GRAMMY® Awards, making it one of the most active recording orchestras in the country. The orchestra has also released recordings on Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and New West Records, among other labels. With more than 140 performances annually, the orchestra offers a broad range of classical, pops and jazz, and children’s concerts, while its extensive education and community engagement programs reach 60,000 children and adults each year.
