Mar 18 Blog 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 Blog REVIEW: Louisville Orchestra Looks For Jazz In Festival Of American Music By Daniel Gilliam
Apr 13 Blog Michael Tilson Thomas in Louisville Michael Tilson Thomas is an iconic conductor, whose lineage includes studies with Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and premieres of Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez. As Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony and New World Symphony, it’s rare to see MTT conduct anywhere else, but Louisville will be afforded a unique opportunity to see […] By Daniel Gilliam Apr 13 Blog Michael Tilson Thomas in Louisville By Daniel Gilliam
Jan 23 Blog MTT Talks About Louisville Orchestra Past and Future Music Makes a City is a documentary produced by Owsley Brown III and Jerome Hiler, and was released in 2010 in select cities, but is making a national debut on PBS stations this weekend (locally, on Friday at 10pm). The film tells the unlikely story of the Louisville Orchestra, created out of the Great Flood of 1937, […] By Daniel Gilliam Jan 23 Blog MTT Talks About Louisville Orchestra Past and Future By Daniel Gilliam