Literature has ever laid its influence on composers. The words of essayist, novelist, and civil rights activist James Baldwin are brought to life in the deeply moving demand for justice by the Emmy-award-winning composer Joel Thompson. Best known for his largest work to date, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, Thompson is finding new listeners
Back to the ’80s is a power-packed evening of the decade’s #1 hit songs, including The Power of Love, Time After Time, Material Girl, Another One Bites The Dust, Footloose, Addicted to Love, and many others. Featuring the music of such 80’s iconic stars as Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Huey Lewis & The News, Phil Collins, Queen, Joe Cocker,
Celebrating the universal language of music through storytelling, the LO Family Series presents a fun and innovative concert designed for children ages 5 to 12 years old. Program details of this concert will be announced.
Lean, moody, and melancholic… here in the Third Symphony you find the ‘other’ Rachmaninoff. The composer presents melodies that do not burst into heart-wrenching flights but toy around the edges of Expressionism, and a curiously inventive structure that both defies and follows traditional norms. We're introduced to Serbian composer Isadora Źebeljan and her suite for
Lean, moody, and melancholic… here in the Third Symphony you find the ‘other’ Rachmaninoff. The composer presents melodies that do not burst into heart-wrenching flights but toy around the edges of Expressionism, and a curiously inventive structure that both defies and follows traditional norms. The mystery and drama of celestial beauty you seek can be
Three classically-trained, but oh-so-versatile, tenors are champions of the series America's Got Talent! appearing on the hit TV show in 2009 as the TEXAS TENORS. Since then, they have become the highest-selling tenor group and gathered 3 Emmy Awards for their PBS Special. The Texas Tenors' concerts appeal to all ages and have been wildly successful
The Harry Potter™ Film Concert Series returns to the Kentucky Center with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ in Concert, the fifth film in the Harry Potter series. On Friday, April 21, 2023, the Louisville Orchestra performs the magical score live from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ while the entire
For the first time in decades, the monumental Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner will be performed by the Louisville Orchestra. Bruckner seemed to become a composer of symphonies overnight after hearing the music of Richard Wagner for the first time. Following the epic scale of Wagner's operas and seemingly trying to reach a level
For the first time in decades, the monumental Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner will be performed by the Louisville Orchestra. Bruckner seemed to become a composer of symphonies overnight after hearing the music of Richard Wagner for the first time. Following the epic scale of Wagner's operas and seemingly trying to reach a level
