Classical

Nashville Ballet was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) to sustain and expand curriculum-based educational arts programming for underserved populations in schools, community centers and libraries, that reach 25,000 individuals annually.

CFMT is a charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the 40 Middle Tennessee counties it serves. It recently awarded grants, totaling $1.3 million, to 273 nonprofits as part of The Foundation’s annual discretionary grant-making process.

The Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department presents a free concert:

TN Valley Winds Community Band Concert

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 * 7:30 pm

Patterson Park Community Center

521 Mercury Boulevard, Murfreesboro

Eric Zimmerman, Conductor

Greg Lawson, Associate Conductor

The MTSU Concert Chorale and Middle Tennessee Choral Society will present one of the greatest works associated with the holiday season, Handel’s “Messiah,” to the community on Dec. 2 and 3.

Concerts are scheduled at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in Hinton Music Hall inside MTSU’s Wright Music Building. 

About 140 choristers, along with harpsichord and chamber orchestra, will perform the Christmas portion of the work, which includes some of its most popular recitatives, arias and choruses.

EVENT:  The Aulos Ensemble presents “Masters of the High Baroque”

Christopher Krueger, flauto traverso

Marc Schachman, baroque oboe

Linda Quan, baroque violin

Myron Lutzke, baroque violoncello

Arthur Haas, harpsichord

DATE and TIME:  Monday, November 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.

PLACE:  Hinton Music Hall, Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus

TICKETS:  Free admission

Program:  “Masters of the High Baroque”