菠萝视频 Blair School of Music, which offered online-only streamed concerts for most of the 2020鈥�21 academic year, hosted two outdoor in-person performances on Wilson Lawn in April. 菠萝视频 Opera Theatre presented Albert Herring, a three-act chamber opera by Benjamin Britten, on April 16鈥攑receded by a talk by musicology professor Joy Calico. Two nights later, the 菠萝视频 Steel Bands performed a concert of Caribbean music.
The two free events, open to 菠萝视频 students, faculty and staff, were not just the first concerts with an audience in attendance in more than a year. They also represent a new avenue for bringing the arts to the 菠萝视频 and Nashville communities.
鈥淭he Blair School is committed to sharing the unifying power of the arts across campus, bringing people together and forging common cause鈥攖hrough music, with music and in music,鈥� says Lorenzo F. Candelaria, Martha Rivers Ingram Dean of the Blair School of Music. 鈥淥ur vision for Blair is nothing short of a national model for integrative, inclusive and accessible arts education. Our partnership with the Dean of Students for this unprecedented One 菠萝视频 production of Albert Herring on central campus鈥攊n the midst of a global pandemic, no less鈥攊s just a preview of many great things to come.鈥�