Jan 30 Artsbreak Louisville Orchestra Announces Ambitious and Unique 2015-2016 Season; New Logo The second season of Teddy Abrams’ music directorship with the Louisville Orchestra was announced tonight at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Where last season was programmed, roughly, half by Abrams and half by Music Director Emeritus Jorge Mester, 2015-2016 is mostly Abrams, with two concerts led by Mester. There is nothing restrained or […] By Daniel Gilliam Jan 30 Artsbreak Louisville Orchestra Announces Ambitious and Unique 2015-2016 Season; New Logo By Daniel Gilliam
Nov 22 Artsbreak REVIEW: An Orchestra, Almost, In Your Living Room The Louisville Orchestra continued its Neighborhood Series “Music Without Borders” last night, with about an hour of music, to a full house at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Prospect. Billed as a casual concert, the orchestra played a mix of light stage music paired with a couple weightier movements from concertos and […] By Daniel Gilliam Nov 22 Artsbreak REVIEW: An Orchestra, Almost, In Your Living Room By Daniel Gilliam
Nov 18 Artsbreak Behind Carmina Burana Remember, back in October, the hundreds of singers performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Louisville Orchestra? Here’s a fun behind-the-scenes video, from the good folks at Music Makes a City, about what it takes to pull off a performance on this scale. By Daniel Gilliam Nov 18 Artsbreak Behind Carmina Burana By Daniel Gilliam
Sep 02 Blog Music Makes a City with Teddy Abrams The Music Makes a City team is starting to release webisodes updating their original film’s story, and highlighting new Louisville Orchestra music director Teddy Abrams. Check it out and watch their Youtube channel for more! By Daniel Gilliam Sep 02 Blog Music Makes a City with Teddy Abrams By Daniel Gilliam
Feb 21 Blog Louisville Orchestra New Season with Teddy Abrams Teddy Abrams was chosen as the eighth Music Director for the Louisville Orchestra earlier this season, and this week unveils his first season with the ensemble (2014-2015). Jorge Mester will conduct about half of the concerts, and the rest are left to the youngest music director in the orchestra’s history. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/24132341″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ […] By Daniel Gilliam Feb 21 Blog Louisville Orchestra New Season with Teddy Abrams 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
Oct 28 Blog Louisville Orchestra Names New Music Director At a press conference today, Andrew Kipe, incoming Executive Director, named Teddy Abrams as the next Music Director to succeed Jorge Mester. We talked with Abrams late last week about his excitement for Louisville and vision for the future of the orchestra. Erin Keane has a full story here. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117442439?secret_token=s-GsxZf” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] By Daniel Gilliam Oct 28 Blog Louisville Orchestra Names New Music Director By Daniel Gilliam