COFFEE: SWING, SWAGGER & SWAY

Kentucky Center 501 W Main St, Louisville

The spotlight shines on Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark, also named as one of Lincoln Center’s eleven Emerging Artists for 2020 and recipient of its prestigious Hunt Family Award. Lark performs Wynton Marsalis’ violin concerto. The music dips and dives through movements titled “Rhapsody,” “Rondo,” “Blues,” and “Hootenanny” to celebrate styles from Jazz to Bluegrass. BUY TICKETS NOW

COFFEE: TEDDY TALKS SCHUMANN

Kentucky Center 501 W Main St, Louisville

Radical Romanticism. Creating passionate music that is brilliantly crafted, Robert Schumann was still a tortured soul who died in an asylum. For this work, his most innovative symphony, Schumann fused 4 movements of a traditional symphony into one flow of music in a move that surprised the music-loving public of his time. BUY TICKETS NOW

COFFEE: FIFTHS OF BEETHOVEN

Kentucky Center 501 W Main St, Louisville

When do two "Fifths" make the whole world take notice? When they are Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Fifth Piano Concerto. Beethoven makes his piano solo part soar with freedom and brilliance but also shares the most tender nocturne in the delicate tension of the sublime middle movement. BUY TICKETS NOW

COFFEE: THE GILDED AGE

Kentucky Center 501 W Main St, Louisville

Esteemed guest conductor Alasdair Neale takes us on a musical journey through the Golden Age of Europe with the sumptuous music of Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel. We'll be swept away by the magical waltzes from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and Ravel's Valse nobles and sentimentales. BUY TICKETS NOW

COFFEE: FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN MUSIC 2 – JOURNEYS OF FAITH

Kentucky Center 501 W Main St, Louisville

The LO will explore the music of Jewish-American icon Leonard Bernstein and an important work by composer and educator Joel Thompson based on the words of African-American writer James Baldwin. The concert will also showcase the world premiere of Creators Corps Composer Tyler Taylor’s Revisions for saxophone ensemble and orchestra. BUY TICKETS NOW