Mar 18 review REVIEW: Louisville Orchestra Looks For Jazz In Festival Of American Music Visiting conductors and composers often bring up the Louisville Orchestra’s legendary First Edition commissioning and recording days in the mid-20th century. The First Edition project put Louisville on lots of maps. The Louisville Orchestra has tried to reclaim some of that history since a youthful Teddy Abrams became music director in 2014. His appointment was […] By Daniel Gilliam Mar 18 review REVIEW: Louisville Orchestra Looks For Jazz In Festival Of American Music By Daniel Gilliam
Mar 13 Featured Album Matthew Lipman’s Ascent Violist Matthew Lipman’s debut, solo album “Ascent” explores music filled with imagination and fantasy. It’s an album that has everything from York Bowen and Robert Schumann’s now-standard works, a previously unknown impromptu by Dmitri Shosakovich, Franz Waxman’s explosive Carmen Fantasie recorded for the first time with viola, and new music from Garth Knox and Clarice […] By Daniel Gilliam Mar 13 Featured Album Matthew Lipman’s Ascent By Daniel Gilliam
Mar 04 Events 90.5 WUOL and 21c Present New Lens 90.5 WUOL Classical Louisville and 21c Museum Hotel present New Lens, a series of concerts and conversations exploring diverse and intriguing sounds and ideas in new music, art, and society. New Lens is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early, grab a cocktail, and view the current exhibitions at 21c […] By WUOL Mar 04 Events 90.5 WUOL and 21c Present New Lens By WUOL
Mar 01 Blog Joyce DiDonato Songplay Joyce DiDonato‘s new album Songplay finds itself at the intersection between baroque & classical songs and jazz, with “standards” from both worlds. DiDonato re-imagines Italian art songs and arias with the flexibility and sensibility of jazz, and throws in tunes by the likes of Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers as a complement. In some ways, […] By Daniel Gilliam Mar 01 Blog Joyce DiDonato Songplay By Daniel Gilliam
Feb 13 Blog ICYMI 2019 Louisville Music Awards On Sunday February 10th 2019, Louisville Public Media (LPM) presented the 2019 Louisville Music Awards (LMA) at Bomhard Theater in the Kentucky Center. The night featured an LPM house band, first-time collaborations with local musicians, and some heartfelt acceptance speeches by some of our music scene’s most underappreciated voices. Jean West and Noel Weaver (Photo: […] By Jecorey Arthur Feb 13 Blog ICYMI 2019 Louisville Music Awards By Jecorey Arthur
Feb 08 Blog Jeremy Denk Maps Centuries of Music History on ‘c.1300-c.2000’ Hear the resourceful pianist trace 700 years of Western music, from the delicate medieval counterpoint of Guillaume de Machaut to the minimalism of Philip Glass. By Tom Huizenga Feb 08 Blog Jeremy Denk Maps Centuries of Music History on ‘c.1300-c.2000’ By Tom Huizenga