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September 2021
Free Concert Season Kickoff
Fri 24 SEP at 8PM • Iroquois Amphitheater • Teddy Abrams conducts a season kickoff concert that is free with no ticket required. The Louisville Orchestra performs music by composers featured throughout the upcoming concerts with an emphasis on the interesting and unique. Soloists in Schubertiade, composed by Teddy Abrams, are LO concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz and LO assistant concertmaster Julia Noone. Their performances lead off a season of performances highlighting LO musicians as soloists. We welcome cellist Ethan Murphy in his LO…
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CLASSICS: A CONCERT FOR UNITY
SAT 2 OCT at 8PM • Kentucky Center • “UMOJA” means “unity.” Louisville native Valerie Coleman wrote her piece and titled it “UMOJA” as a gesture of love between good friends. As we strive to create unity within our families, our city, our nation, and our world, we present this concert as an embrace and lifting up of the joys and sorrows of our community. We search for healing connections and offer welcome to all. Local musicians join the orchestra…
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Sat 9 OCT at 8PM • Old Forester's Paristown Hall Exploring new sounds and new sensations in music that stripped down the elements of melodies, rhythm, and harmony ignited a genre known as “Minimalism.” Starting in the 1960s and still influencing composers today, the style is inspired by Steve Reich’s monumental Music for 18 Musicians, a masterpiece of early minimalism and a work rarely performed today. This style has been called "trance-inducing" or "hypnotic." There's no doubt that this is…
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THU 14 OCT at 7:30PM • Comstock Hall, UofL • Teddy has created a fascinating program of 20th-century works that are patterned after styles from the past. Scored for three solo instruments (flute, oboe, and trumpet) and strings, the Capricorn Concerto is an early work by American composer Samuel Barber that was strongly influenced by J. S. Bach. A largely forgotten yet innovative composer who, as a Jewish Czech, died in a concentration camp, Edwin Schulhoff flips the numbers and…
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FRI 15 OCT at 7:30PM • The Jeffersonian • Teddy has created a fascinating program of 20th-century works that are patterned after styles from the past. Scored for three solo instruments (flute, oboe, and trumpet) and strings, the Capricorn Concerto is an early work by American composer Samuel Barber that was strongly influenced by J. S. Bach. A largely forgotten yet innovative composer who, as a Jewish Czech, died in a concentration camp, Edwin Schulhoff flips the numbers and the…
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SAT 16 OCT at 7:30PM • Ogle Center • Teddy has created a fascinating program of 20th century works that are patterned after styles from the past. Scored for three solo instruments (flute, oboe, and trumpet) and strings, the Capricorn Concerto is an early work by American composer Samuel Barber that was strongly influenced by J. S. Bach. A largely forgotten yet innovative composer who, as a Jewish Czech, died in a concentration camp, Edwin Schulhoff flips the numbers and…
Find out more »POPS: MUSIC OF PROHIBITION
SAT 23 OCT at 8PM • Kentucky Center • Travel through the cabarets and speakeasies of New York, Paris, Berlin, London and Louisville in the 1920s! Raise a toast to Josephine Baker, Kurt Weill, King Oliver and all the daring music of the Roaring 20s. BOB BERNHARDT, conductor MYRA MAUD, singer BRONSON NORRIS MURPHY, singer MADISON CLAIRE PARKS, singer
Find out more »CLASSICS: TEDDY TALKS SCHUBERT
SAT 30 OCT at 8PM • Kentucky Center • Using brilliantly simple, songful melodies, Schubert evokes the grandeur and expansiveness of Beethoven in this work of triumph and exaltation. For these reasons, Teddy chose this work for his next signature TEDDY TALKS concert. Franz SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, (“The Great”) TEDDY ABRAMS, conductor SERIES SPONSORED BY THE BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION
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MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS: BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL JEWELS
THU 11 NOV at 7:30PM • The Jeffersonian • Like a string of jewels, this concert links one glittering masterpiece with the next. Baroque gems from France, Italy, and Germany share the setting before turning to a true diamond of the Classical era. Jean-Philippe RAMEAU: Overture to Zaïs Antonio VIVALDI: Concerto for Two Violoncellos J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 W.A. MOZART: Symphony No. 35, (“Haffner”) GABRIEL LEFKOWITZ, conductor and violin NICHOLAS FINCH and LILLIAN PETTITT, cellos
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FRI 12 NOV at 7:30PM • St. Francis in the Fields • Like a string of jewels, this concert links one glittering masterpiece with the next. Baroque gems from France, Italy, and Germany share the setting before turning to a true diamond of the Classical era. Jean-Philippe RAMEAU: Overture to Zaïs Antonio VIVALDI: Concerto for Two Violoncellos J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 W.A. MOZART: Symphony No. 35, (“Haffner”) GABRIEL LEFKOWITZ, conductor and violin NICHOLAS FINCH and LILLIAN PETTITT, cellos
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