ARTICLE: http://www.wsmv.com/story/15414874/bulgers-beat-nashville-musician-gets-chance-of-a-lifetime
One Nashville musician is getting the chance of a lifetime - the opportunity not to just perform with the Grammy Award winning Nashville Symphony, but to be in charge of the music it plays.
More than anything, this unique idea shows just how much musical talent there is in Music City.
It's a live show Thursday night, the kick-off of the Live on the Green series downtown. And the music is now in the hands of one young and excited Nashville songwriter.
K.S. Rhoads clearly can make beautiful music on his own.
Eighty-eight keys and a rhythmic imagination makes him one of Nashville's most talented young songwriters with a short bucket list of dreams.
"Like my top five things, definitely one is to play with a full orchestra. And if I could pick one, it would be the Nashville Symphony," he said.
On stage at the Schermerhorn, surrounded by 83 players, Rhoads rehearsed his music Wednesday with the symphony.
It is a daunting challenge, with a superbly symphonic payoff.
"And once they were all in, I was like I can't believe it. Months of writing music in your head and you never heard it performed before, and then the Nashville Symphony starts playing it with the flutes and violins, coming in this way and that, it was one of the best moments of my life," Rhoads said.
That was just the rehearsal. Thursday, it's real.
Live on the Green is free at 6 p.m. in front of the Metro courthouse.
"If you like Beastie Boys, you're gonna like the show, if you like Tom Waits, or Beethoven, you're gonna like the show. All those elements are there," he said.
The show starts at 6 p.m. and K.S. and the symphony play at 7 p.m., which is earlier than planned. They have moved them up in the lineup hopefully to dodge the cold weather.
Cellos and violins don't work too well when the temperature drops.
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