Nashville Symphony Schermerhorn Symphony Center — Attraction in Nashville-Davidson

Four of us went to see The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute perform here. Overall, the Schermerhorn is an upscale venue with good acoustics and pleasant atmosphere. The facilities are clean and kept up well.

The seats are fairly typical of what's expected in live theater venue and were comfortable, with a cupholder available on the seat in front of you. Rows and seat numbers were well-marked and easy to find.

Bathrooms were downstairs and were easy to find. They were clean and a little on the upscale side, as well.

During intermission you can get refreshments, including alcoholic beverages with a fairly well-stocked bar for the small space that it occupies. However, be prepared to pay some pretty high prices here. I paid $5 for a 20-oz. bottle of Diet Coke.

Vendors of t-shirts and CDs camp out at simple tables placed just outside the entrance to the theater area itself. Facilities for transactions were very bare bones. Items were cash only and the vendors had no bags in which to carry your purchased items while you watched the show.

The ticket-takers and ushers were very pleasant and ready to be helpful. You barely had to approach them and make eye contact for them to offer assistance, which was a refreshing and welcome experience.

The acoustics were very good, although not the best I've ever heard. We had just seen another Beatles tribute act, Rain, at the Belmont Fisher Center, and the sound was stellar and perfect. I'm not sure if the difference comes down to the act itself and the sound engineers they may have provided, or if it was the venue itself, but because we have heard better, I'd rate the sound of the performance we saw here 4 stars out of 5.

I would recommend the Schermerhorn as a good venue at which to see a show, and I would come here again to see other...

I recently went to the Schermerhorn to see Lyle Lovett (acoustic show). I sat in the front, in one of the Founders Box seats to the right and just above the stage. The place is absolutely gorgeous! I'm not sure that the acoustics wouldn't have been better, though, if I had been sitting in front of the stage instead of over it. I was happy to find out that there was a separate bar for the area in which I was seated, so I was able to purchase a glass of Cabernet prior to the show. They do allow guests to take drinks with them to their seats - in the glass - if seated in one of the Founders Box seats. That was really nice, because there are small tables between seats there, making it very comfortable. There were no lines waiting to get in, no rushing, no loud noises, no obnoxious people--no problems at all associated with my visit. It was a complete pleasure from start to finish. My only disappointment was that they don't allow guests to take photographs. As I am an amateur photographer, I would have loved to have taken some shots of Lyle and the band from my...

The excellent - Went for a rock concert and the sound in the building is as near perfect as I can imagine. Beautiful interior. The good - The band had a stage design the made it impossible for concert goers who bought tickets in the orchestra to it there. The Symphony ticket sellers did the right thing and sent out notification two days prior to the concert, reassigned people to other good seats, and also compensated fans by inviting them to the band's sound check. The bad - Ticketmaster. Those like me who bought tickets through Ticketmaster weren't so lucky. Notification was emailed a few hours prior to the concert, during typical work hours for most adults. I did not know about the change until I arrived for the concert. My new seats were as far from the stage as was possible, and the band were tiny little figures a thousand feet away. I believe the late notification was by design, to limit profit loss from refunds. Bottom line -if you go for a concert, I highly suggest you buy tickets directly from the Symphony ticket office and not through...