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From Curb Youth Symphony Director Carol Nies: Dear CYS members, The CYS will rehearse this evening. However, if it is dangerous in the area that you are coming from, please do not come until the danger has passed. Please check the weather radar map (moving interactive radar that shows green… Read More

The Blair School is pleased to once again host Parnassus Books as they bring bestselling author Michael Pollan to Nashville for a discussion and signing of his latest book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. This author event will take place at the Blair School’s Ingram… Read More

The final concert in Blair’s Living Sounds series has a twist this year. Living Sounds is an annual three-concert series showcasing the work of Blair’s student composers, performed by their fellow students. It’s always an engaging and wide-ranging exploration of contemporary composition. Acclaimed contemporary composer Richard Danielpour… Read More

The Blair School partners with the Nashville Symphony for the second year to host a free screening of a music-related movie in conjunction with a Symphony performance. This year, the Blair School is pleased to bring you Amadeus, Miloš Forman’s 1984 masterpiece about… Read More

On February 18, the Blair School lost our beloved Big Band director and jazz instructor Billy Adair. Adair’s impact and influence on our students, faculty and community can not be overstated. He was mentor and musician, faculty and friend. In celebration of Adair’s life, a special tribute… Read More

The Aetas Trio, which consists of Blair School undergraduate students Matthew Lammers, violin, Ann Yeh, cello, and Marissa Uchimura, piano, won third place in the Music Teachers National Association nattional competition, held March 22 in Chicago. Read More

The Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University seeks a full-time senior lecturer in jazz, to begin in Fall 2014. Duties include coordinating the jazz studies area, directing the Big Band, teaching courses in improvisation, jazz chord theory, jazz styles for teacher-education students, and possibly other teaching responsibilities as appropriate. Read More

The Appalachian Celebration, the Blair School’s annual appreciation of folk music and mountain sounds, this year is headlined by father-daughter old-time duo Rafe and Clelia Stefanini. Rafe Stefanini is an Italian old-time banjo player, fiddler, guitarist, singer and teacher, as well as a respected violin maker and restorer. Daughter Clelia… Read More

  In 2014, the Blair School of Music celebrates 50 years of educating musicians in Nashville. Initially the Blair Academy of Music, which was devoted to teaching music to precollege and adult students, the Blair School has thrived, growing and… Read More

The finals of the Nashville Symphony’s annual Curb Concerto Competition were held Sunday, March 2, at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and all three top finalists are Myra Jackson Blair Scholars in the Blair School’s precollege program. Violist Olivia Palazzolo won the grand prize, and will perform as… Read More