In Monday’s (10/15) Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas), Bill Blankenship writes, “Because Kelly Corcoran, associate conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, also is a soprano who once aspired to sing opera, the mother of a 2-year-old, the wife of a rock composer who plays keyboards in a country band and the daughter of parents who loved the Beatles and Elvis, she says her iPod is loaded with more than just classical masterworks. ‘Music is music, and great music is great music,’ said Corcoran, who will lead the Topeka Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night as the second of five candidates trying out this season to be the ensemble’s next music director. … Corcoran, who is in her sixth season with the Grammy-winning Nashville Symphony, took a different path than most to a career as a conductor. ‘Really, I didn’t get into classical music until I was older, like high school level,’ said Corcoran, who grew up in Springfield, Mass., where her father was a police officer and mother was a businesswoman who now teaches at a college. … In Nashville, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with musicians as diverse as jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and the Western band Riders in the Sky, with which she recorded ‘Riders in the Sky ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn with the Nashville Symphony.’ ”
Posted October 16, 2012
