Nov 27 Arts and Culture Classical Music Performances To Break The ‘Santa Baby’ Monotony The Louisville Orchestra and other local classical ensembles will perform holiday concerts in the coming days. By Ashlie Stevens Nov 27 Arts and Culture Classical Music Performances To Break The 'Santa Baby' Monotony Ashlie Stevens
Oct 12 Arts and Culture Louisville Orchestra Seeks The Spiritual In Pop Culture Favorite, ‘Requiem’ An upcoming Louisville Orchestra performance may help remind audiences of the more sacred origins of one of the world’s most recognizable works. By Ashlie Stevens Oct 12 Arts and Culture Louisville Orchestra Seeks The Spiritual In A Pop Culture Favorite Ashlie Stevens
Aug 24 Arts and Culture Classical Pianist Yuja Wang To Open Louisville Orchestra Season The Louisville Orchestra is kicking off its new season with help from a classical music superstar. By Ashlie Stevens Aug 24 Arts and Culture Classical Pianist Yuja Wang To Open Louisville Orchestra Season Ashlie Stevens
Jun 27 Arts and Culture Wands Out: Louisville Orchestra Continues ‘Harry Potter’ Concert Series The series kicked off last year with music from the first film. This year, the orchestra will play the score to the second 'Harry Potter' film. By Ashlie Stevens Jun 27 Arts and Culture Louisville Orchestra Continues ‘Harry Potter’ Concert Series Ashlie Stevens
Mar 22 Arts and Culture Kentucky Bach Choir To Bring Challenging Masterpiece To Louisville Written one year before his death, Bach’s massive, multi-part Mass in B-minor is almost uniformly regarded as his crowning achievement. By Ashlie Stevens Mar 22 Arts and Culture Kentucky Bach Choir To Bring Challenging Masterpiece To Louisville Ashlie Stevens
Nov 28 Arts and Culture Composer Explores Video Games, Attention Span In Grawemeyer Winner In three movements, Andrew Norman’s orchestral piece “Play” explores the relationship of choice and chance, free will and control. By Ashlie Stevens Nov 28 Arts and Culture Composer Explores Video Games, Attention Span In Grawemeyer Winner Ashlie Stevens
Nov 26 Arts and Culture Bourbon Baroque Returns To Louisville To Perform Handel’s ‘Messiah’ This weekend, the group will give two performances of the entire composition with a troupe of 21 instrumentalists and 13 vocalists. By Ashlie Stevens Nov 26 Arts and Culture Bourbon Baroque Returns To Louisville To Perform Handel's 'Messiah' Ashlie Stevens
Oct 3 Arts and Culture How Do You Get Kids Into Art? For Squallis, It Starts With A Suitcase In just a few minutes on this Saturday afternoon, puppeteer Shawn Hennessy of Squallis Puppeteers will transform that suitcase into a stage. By Ashlie Stevens Oct 3 Arts and Culture How Do You Get Kids Into Art? For Squallis, It Starts With A Suitcase Ashlie Stevens
Jun 16 Arts and Culture Floyd Central High School Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall This week, the Floyd Central High School Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall as part of the Symphonic Series, featuring outstanding school music ensembles. By Ashlie Stevens Jun 16 Arts and Culture Floyd Central High School Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall Ashlie Stevens
Jan 9 Arts and Culture Review: Mester’s Final Concerts with the Louisville Orchestra Colorful and Lyrical The first Louisville Orchestra concert of 2016 also represented Jorge Mester’s penultimate concert as director emeritus of the Louisville Orchestra. Before the concert, Brad Broecker, the orchestra’s former CEO who was crucial in securing the Maestro’s return to Louisville as music director following several tumultuous years, honored Mester’s two terms as music director. Though Mester’s […] By Daniel Gilliam Jan 9 Arts and Culture Review: Mester’s Final Concerts with the Louisville Orchestra Colorful and Lyrical Daniel Gilliam
Dec 30 Arts and Culture The Year in Louisville Arts: Vibrant, Challenging and Growing For the arts in Louisville, 2015 has been all about pushing forward. It seems that there are more events happening than ever before — more performances, more exhibitions, more experiments and more collaborations. Once upon a time in Louisville, there would be only one or two choices for a given evening’s entertainment. But these days, […] By Tara Anderson Dec 30 Arts and Culture The Year in Louisville Arts: Vibrant, Challenging and Growing Tara Anderson
Dec 2 Arts and Culture Here’s a Holiday Arts Roundup For Louisville They’re as much a part of holiday tradition as Christmas trees and stockings hung by the chimney: the holiday shows that we go to see, year after year. This is not the time of year when local arts organizations are especially concerned with innovation or challenges. It’s not a time to be provocative, or to […] By Tara Anderson Dec 2 Arts and Culture Here’s a Holiday Arts Roundup For Louisville Tara Anderson
Nov 26 Arts and Culture Bourbon Baroque To Present Vintage ‘Messiah’ Performances of Handel’s “Messiah” are a holiday tradition, but one group in Louisville is doing it the old-fashioned way. Bourbon Baroque uses musical instruments that are authentic to the 18th century style, and works with its performers to present historically accurate arrangements. Instead of performing just the first section of the piece that tells the Christmas […] By Tara Anderson Nov 26 Arts and Culture Bourbon Baroque To Present Vintage ‘Messiah’ Tara Anderson
Nov 24 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition Announced A collection of songs from the point of view of Shakespeare’s Ophelia is the winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. “Let Me Tell You” is a collection of songs for soprano and orchestra, composed by Hans Abrahamsen, with a libretto by Paul Griffiths. All of the text is taken directly from Ophelia’s […] By Tara Anderson Nov 24 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition Announced Tara Anderson
Nov 13 Arts and Culture Three Acts, Three Characters, ‘Three Decembers’ Plays In Louisville A family matriarch who quite possibly cared more about her stage career than her children. A gay son whose lover is dying of AIDS. An alcoholic daughter in an unhappy marriage. These are the stories traced over the course of three decades by Kentucky Opera’s newest production. “Three Decembers” by American composer Jake Heggie is based […] By Tara Anderson Nov 13 Arts and Culture Three Acts, Three Characters, ‘Three Decembers’ Plays In Louisville Tara Anderson