Mar 29 Featured Album Featured Album: Voces8 Enchanted Isle Voces8‘s fourth album looks inward to the music of Britain in “Enchanted Isle.” Barnaby Smith, a countertenor in the group, spoke with Daniel Gilliam about this new project and how they’ve tried to capture the sound of their homeland. We’ve tried to achieve that with the use of folk songs, as well as, sort of, […] By WUOL Mar 29 Featured Album Featured Album: Voces8 Enchanted Isle By WUOL
Mar 20 WUOLive WUOLive: Macauley Chamber Music Competition Winners The winners of the 2019 Macauley Chamber Music Competition will play on WUOLive, Wednesday, March 27th at noon here at Louisville Public Media. Sponsored by the Chamber Music Society of Louisville, the competition will feature high school and collegiate ensembles from the region. The concert is free and open-to-the-public. Members can reserve a lunch from […] By WUOL Mar 20 WUOLive WUOLive: Macauley Chamber Music Competition Winners By WUOL
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