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September 2019
Free at Iroquois Amphitheater
SAT 7 SEP :: Kick off the concert season with a free performance by your Louisville Orchestra. Teddy Abrams conducts a family-friendly program featuring an eclectic selection of music. Mark your calendar! Antonin DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"), Mvt. 1 Jesse MONTGOMERY: Strum Jeremy KITTEL: Pando Ben SOLLEE: Whole Lot to Give, Bible Belt, Electrified Teddy ABRAMS: Kentucky Royal Fanfare J.S. BACH: "Sinfonia" from Easter Oratorio Arvo PART: Summa for string orchestra John WILLIAMS: "Main Title: from Star Wars Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture…
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SAT 21 SEPT 2019 :: Relax and enjoy an evening of film and music as we perform classic movie themes with selected film clips. The evening features cinematic favorites including Gone with the Wind, the Magnificent Seven, Dr. Zhivago, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ben Hur and many more BOB BERNHARDT, conductor
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FRI 27 SEPT 2019 :: Louisville’s influence on the world of symphonic music extends far beyond our city boundaries. Enjoy two works created during the LO’s historic era of commissioning new music and learn about the influence of a Louisville musician on the famous Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák. Witold LUTOSLAWSKI: Fanfare for Orchestra Jacques IBERT: Louisville Concerto Robert WHITNEY: Concertino for Orchestra Antonin DVORÁK: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") TEDDY ABRAMS, conductor CONCERT SPONSORED BY MCGRIFF INSURANCE SERVICES
Find out more »CLASSICS: FROM THE NEW WORLD
28 SEP 2019 :: Featuring the sweeping melody that inspired the song "Goin' Home," this symphony is a beloved masterpiece. Did you know that the Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak was inspired to write this symphony because of correspondence with a Louisville woman? Read more about that fascinating story here. Our guest soloists were noted by New York City classical radio WQXR as "19 for 19" notable musicians to watch. These young influentials are changing the future of symphonic music with premieres, outreach…
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MUSIC W/out BORDERS: CLASSICAL CORNERSTONES
THU 3 OCT 2019 :: The Jeffersonian :: Offering a virtuosic bag of tricks for a violinist, Stravinsky’s concerto, written in 1913, has a fresh delight with every page turn. This dazzling work is paired with one of only two symphonies that W.A. Mozart wrote in a minor key. The persistence of that dark tonality creates a yearning that carries through the work. One of the icons of the Classical era, Mozart’s 40th shows the composer’s intensely expressive heart and…
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FRI 4 OCT 2019 :: St. Francis In The Fields :: Offering a virtuosic bag of tricks for a violinist, Stravinsky’s concerto, written in 1913, has a fresh delight with every page turn. This dazzling work is paired with one of only two symphonies that W.A. Mozart wrote in a minor key. The persistence of that dark tonality creates a yearning that carries through the work. One of the icons of the Classical era, Mozart’s 40th shows the composer’s intensely…
Find out more »FAMILY: SUPERHEROINES and HEROES
SAT 05 OCT :: We're ramping up the fun for our Family concerts starting with a musical look at heroes and heroines of all sorts. From real-life hometown heroes to our favorite fictional characters, we'll have fun and familiar music in a concert designed for kids from 4 to 12 years old*. John WILLIAMS: "Superman March" from Superman Danny ELFMAN: Batman Suite John ESTACIO: "King Arthur and Merlin" from King Arthur's Camelot John WILLIAMS: "Rey's Theme" from Star Wars: The Force Awakens GIACCHINO: …
Find out more »MUSIC W/OUT BORDERS at the OGLE CENTER: CLASSICAL CORNERSTONES
SAT 5 OCT 2019 :: Offering a virtuosic bag of tricks for a violinist, Stravinsky’s concerto, written in 1913, has a fresh delight with every page turn. This dazzling work is paired with one of only two symphonies that W.A. Mozart wrote in a minor key. The persistence of that dark tonality creates a yearning that carries through the work. One of the icons of the Classical era, Mozart’s 40th shows the composer’s intensely expressive heart and flows from start to…
Find out more »COFFEE: FROM THE SEA
FRI 11 OCT 2019 :: Dive into this beautiful concert about the watery world. Sea nymphs, wind, waves, and water have inspired composers and film-makers to create masterpieces of orchestral music. Loosely translated as "nymphs of the waves," Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote his tone poem in 1913 evoking the icy depths and the low horizon of a northern seascape. Just 8 years earlier, French composer Claude Debussy wrote his masterful work La Mer evoking the many moods of the sea…
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12 OCT 2019 :: Water – the essential element of life – is explored in this vivid program featuring six members of The Percussion Collective. From the mythological sea nymphs of The Oceanides to Seaborne, a work by a Grammy-Award winning composer with percussion solos and a stunning film shot in Hawaii, this program offers an expansive look at music depicting bodies of water. Become River flows through the orchestra with an innovative stage setting and the performance closes with the…
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