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  Tennessee State Symbols Emblems Flag Seal State Horse State Tree State Bird State Flower Amphibian Game Bird Insect
Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame, Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport in Sevier County
As adopted by the Heart of Tennessee Scottish Celebration in conjunction with all the other Scottish Societies.
The state bird of Tennessee could have been the Robin or the Cardinal or Bobwhite quail.
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 Tennessee Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The beautiful Tennessee Theatre is a jewel of historic Knoxville, located in the heart of Downtown.
Chicago architects Graven and Mayger brought to the Tennessee Theatre a Spanish-Moorish style interior, although the design incorporates elements from all parts of the world: Czechoslovakian crystals in the French-style chandeliers, Italian terrazzo flooring in the Grand Lobby, and Oriental influences in the carpet and drapery patterns.
When it opened in 1928, the Tennessee Theatre was hailed as "the South's most beautiful theatre." For generations, it shone as a beacon drawing people to Downtown Knoxville.
www.tennesseetheatre.com /default.aspx?typeid=6&main=main_news   (1343 words)

  
 WBIR-TV Print Article
Theatre workers say the Wurlitzer Company built that organ specifically for the Tennessee Theatre when the venue first opened in 1928.
The Mighty Wurlitzer was taken away from the Tennessee Theatre in June 2003 to protect it during renovations.
Tennessee Theatre workers say they are also still in need of donations for the multi million dollar project.
www.wbir.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=21497   (449 words)

  
 Theatre - Knoxville
The University of Tennessee is one of a select number of universities nationwide that are affiliated with a professional LORT theatre, allowing MFA candidates and undergraduates in theatre regular opportunities to work alongside professional actors while earning membership in Actors' Equity Association.
The Tennessee Theatre is one of the last great movie palaces still in operation.
The Tennessee Theatre is still captivating audiences with its ambiance and with the entertainment it has to offer.
www.knoxvilletennessee.com /theatre.html   (560 words)

  
 vDPW - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Through the vision of James Dick, the primary benefactor, the Tennessee was donated to the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation, a nonprofit organization created in 1996 for the purpose of inheriting the theatre in its entirety, and supporting other nonprofit entities such as the city’s symphony and opera companies.
The architectural vision focused on adapting the theatre to a performing arts facility with the capability of hosting a diverse array of performance types and uses, including symphony, dance, musical theatre, opera, and non-performance events such as lectures, social, and business functions.
The daunting challenge of the stage house expansion met by the architectural team was the incorporation of proper "load-in" and staging areas, the preservation of the traffic flow along State Street, sensitivity to the cemetery and its magnificent plantings, and compatibility with adjacent historic architecture and the larger urban context.
www.vpwa.com /NewsDocs/tennessee.htm   (914 words)

  
 Tennessee Symbols, Theatre: Tennessee Theatre - SHG Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Tennessee Theatre is a jewel of historic Knoxville, located in the heart of Downtown.
The Tennessee Theatre is in its last season before it closes for a complete restoration and renovation.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Tennessee Theatre is hereby designated as "The State Theatre of Tennessee".
www.shgresources.com /tn/symbols/theatre   (541 words)

  
 Cinema Treasures | Tennessee Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Tennessee became one of the earliest Knoxville palaces to be air-conditioned, and became a haven for people walking down Gay Street in the summer heat.
The Tennessee was declared the official theater of the State of Tennessee in 1999.
On June 1, 2003, the Tennessee closed to undergo a $23.5 restoration, and was reopened in January 2005.
cinematreasures.org /theater/1697   (1291 words)

  
 thedailytimes.com - Tennessee Theatre reopens after $23.5M restoration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A cornerstone of Knoxville's culture and history, the Tennessee Theatre was called ``The most beautiful theatre in the South,'' when it first opened in 1928.
When the Tennessee General Assembly designated the movie palace as the State Theatre of Tennessee in 1999, the foundation began raising the more than $20 million needed to restore the theatre to its former glory.
Audience members will be able to enjoy their work -- and Tennessee Theatre performances -- in the comfort of brand-new seating that still mimics the colors and fabrics of the originals.
www.thedailytimes.com /sited/story/html/183397   (769 words)

  
 Featured Organ For December 2004
This is the Tennessee Theatre 3/16 WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ,
The instrument was installed in the theatre in 1928, and is one of the few remaining original installations left in the United States.
When the theatre was designed and constructed, special attention was paid to the integration of the pipe organ with the auditorium.
theatreorgans.com /walnuthill/feature1204.htm   (764 words)

  
 KnoxNews: Fine Arts
Acoustics are part science and part art, especially when retrofitting an auditorium like the Tennessee Theatre, built at a time when achieving great acoustics was often trial and error and the amplified sound of movies and vaudeville shows didn't need good natural sound.
The $23.5 million renovation of the Tennessee Theatre, which was paid for with a mix of public and private money, "fits perfectly" with his vision of making downtown an inviting place to live, work and play, Haslam said.
This section was produced while the Theatre was still under construction and not all the new features were completed enough to be photographed.
web.knoxnews.com /special/0109tt   (651 words)

  
 About Tennessee Players, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tennessee Players, Inc., is a very unique non-profit performing arts organization founded in l986 by Thurston Moore and his late wife, Georgianna (1927-2002).
Their weekly radio program, The Theatre Scene, hosted by Georgianna, ran for more than three years and their acclaimed programs are in the archives of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation and the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City.
Georgianna's personal fulfillment was "encouraging community theatres and nurturing the growth of new talent." Actor Tom Dolan wrote after her death, "What she taught me was to look from within and pull life's richness out.
tennesseeplayers.org /tnplayers.html   (654 words)

  
 Department of Speech&Theatre :: Middle Tennessee State University 615.898.2640
We also have an exciting Theatre program that offers majors and specialized minors in both performance and technical areas.
The Theatre program allows students to participate in all aspects of the performance and technical production of shows in a diverse theatre season every academic year.
Middle Tennessee State University, in its educational programs and activities involving students and employees, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or age.
www.mtsu.edu /~speethea   (525 words)

  
 KnoxNews: Fine Arts
The Tennessee Theatre's grand reopening weekend promises to be both elegant and egalitarian.
Even when the Tennessee Theatre was faded, sooty, leaky and shabby, Tim Burns saw the once-grand movie palace inspire.
When the Tennessee Theatre came into being in the first decade after the end of the World War I, the pace of change had accelerated and everyone's awareness of the world had increased.
www.knoxnews.com /kns/fine_arts/0,1406,kns_341,00.html   (353 words)

  
 Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership - Knoxville Theatre Re-opens After Renovation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dick bestowed the theatre to the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation in 1996.
When the Tennessee State Legislature designated the movie palace as the “State Theatre of Tennessee” in 1999, the foundation began raising the more than $20 million needed to restore the theatre to its original glory.
A replica of the original theatre marquee and the six-story, vertical “Tennessee” sign is visible for blocks with cascading lights.
www.knoxvillechamber.com /index.php/kacp/news_archive/knoxville_theatre_re_opens_after_renovation   (736 words)

  
 Nashville Theatre Arts
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to providing and supporting the presentation of the performing arts to the citizens of Tennessee.
When the Belle Meade Theatre was converted to a bookstore in 1993, The Belcourt became the last traditional neighborhood movie house in Nashville.
The theatre is now thriving as a home to independent, foreign, and classic films, two theatre troupe's, People's Branch Theatre and the Old World Theatre Company, an alternative concert venue, and a house for special community and cultural events.
www.givemenashville.com /theatre_arts.htm   (991 words)

  
 Clarence Brown Theatre
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is an extensive, diverse and thriving community dedicated to a mission of teaching, scholarship, artistic expression, public service, and professional practice.
The Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre is a part of the College of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest established colleges within the university.
The city of Knoxville is located on the upper Tennessee River, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains -- one of the most beautiful areas of the eastern United States.
theatre.utk.edu   (311 words)

  
 City of Knoxville
The announcement followed a vote by the board of directors of the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation to manage the 188-year-old landmark, with AC Entertainment overseeing the Bijou's daily operations in addition to the Tennessee Theatre.
The theatre's board of directors will seek to have a federal grant of $571,000 earmarked for construction costs at the Tennessee Theatre used on behalf of the Bijou.
The Mayor also praised the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation's board of directors for agreeing to provide leadership for the Bijou, on the heels of the very successful reopening of the Tennessee Theatre.
www.ci.knoxville.tn.us /Press_Releases/Content/2005/0331.asp   (696 words)

  
 Metro Pulse/Editorial/Tennessee Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Tennessee Theatre has recaptured its past grandeur, with a lot of help from a lot of Knoxvillians, and it’s about to reopen to a level of fanfare unprecedented for a single institution here.
Descriptions of the renovated theater are rife with superlative rhetoric: magnificent; lavish; marvelous; opulent; resplendent; a gem; a jewel...the grand entertainment palace it was when it opened in 1928 is a classic of its kind.
News Sentinel Publisher Bruce Hartmann ably and vigorously led the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation in the fund drive that made the restoration and expansion of the backstage area possible.
www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2004/1450/t_editorial.html   (816 words)

  
 Tennessee Theatre Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Our dedicated team of Tennessee Theatre ticket specialists will source your tickets through our state of the art database and have premium tickets "in your hand" in as little as 24 hours.
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 AIArchitect, July 4, 2005 - Project Watch | Glam Historic Tennessee Theatre Returns to Knoxville
To execute their plans for the former movie palace and official state theater of Tennessee, the architects worked with the site’s urban context, preserved traffic flow as they extended the three-story stage house to the property line, and kept respect for a neighboring historic cemetery.
The Tennessee operated continuously as the primary venue in Knoxville until patrons moved to the suburbs in the 1970s.
In 1996, the owner donated the Tennessee to the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation, a nonprofit organization created specifically to preserve the theater in its entirety.
www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw0701/tw0701pw_knoxville.htm   (851 words)

  
 Stardust Drive-In Theatre Watertown, Tennessee
But the blockbuster turnout for Tennessee's 15th outdoor movie theater, located about 40 minutes east of Nashville off I-40 in Watertown, shows that fltop cinephilia may be in for a revival.
Floyd told The Middle Tennessee Times that the first phase of the project will feature a sixty-foot wide, four story tall screen, which will sit sixteen feet off the ground, making it one of the largest screens in Tennessee.
The Watertown industrial park area near Tennessee Boulevard is the location that Barry Floyd has pinpointed for the drive-in that he wants to operate.
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 Knoxville Tennessee Culture and Cultural Information
The Historic Laurel Theatre is a performance center and home of Jubilee Community Arts, an organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of traditional music and art forms of the Southern Appalachians.
The Frank H. McClung Museum is an important component of The University of Tennessee, and participates in the implementation of the University's mission.
The University of Tennessee is committed to the development of individuals and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit.
www.knoxville-tn.com /cultural.html   (2967 words)

  
 University of Tennessee Band Program
The University of Tennessee Band Program is one of the most prestigious university band programs in the United States.
University of Tennessee Bands have performed across the country in a variety of venues.
The UT Concert Bands have performed at conferences of the Music Educators National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, and the American Bandmasters Association, as well as in major concert halls across the country, most notably, Carnegie Hall in April 2003.
web.utk.edu /~utband   (308 words)

  
 The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,Summer and Smoke, The Rose, paper
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume IV: Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, Night of the Iguana, clothbound
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume IV: Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, Night of the Iguana, paper
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 Knoxville Opera - About KO - Performance Venues
The beautiful Tennessee Theatre is a jewel of historic Knoxville, located in the heart of Downtown on Gay Street.
The Tennessee Theatre is currently undergoing major renovation and complete restoration, which will transform the movie palace into a performing arts venue while retaining its historic splendor.
Previous owners Tennessee Enterprises was at the time building the new Tennessee Theatre, and they wanted to ensure that there would be no competition nearby.
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 Nashville Ticket Brokers - Memphis Ticket Brokers - Tennessee Sports, Nascar, Concert Tickets Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As a Tennessee ticket broker, we have access to some of the best seats to nearly every concert in Tennessee.
In addition to selling Broadway tickets, we sell tickets for theatre events around the country, including popular shows in Tennessee.
We are not affiliated with the City of Tennessee, Ticketmaster®, any box office, or San Francisco sports team.
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 Tennessee Repertory Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When he meets her, he discovers she is concerned about her sister in New York who's been unreachable in the chaos following the attack on the World Trade Center.
Intelligent, funny, and deeply moving, this piece is a must for theatre lovers… and all who find life somehow different since 9/11.
The return of a Mockingbird Theatre favorite The death of "Daddy Bud," the soft-spoken patriarch of a small-town Southern clan, brings the family together.
www.interpretedtheater.com /rep.htm   (362 words)

  
 Tennessee Theatre Event Schedule, Tennessee Theatre Knoxville, Tennessee Theatre TN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tennessee Theatre Event Schedule, Tennessee Theatre Knoxville, Tennessee Theatre TN Tennessee Theatre Tickets
Tennessee Theatre Ticket Broker - Knoxville, TN All About Tickets, Inc. offers premium seating to Tennessee Theatre TN events including concerts tickets, sports tickets, and theatre tickets.
All About Tickets, Inc. is an independent, privately-owned company engaged in the service of buying and selling concert tickets, sports tickets, and theatre events on the secondary market.
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