The Louisville Orchestra’s 2020-21 season, the seventh under the inspired and inspiring leadership of Music Director Teddy Abrams, features a historic return to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 1989 and only the third time in the orchestra’s history, in the company of Louisville’s own Jim James – also their collaborator for the recent chart-topping album The Order of Nature – and dancers from the Louisville Ballet. Andrew Norman’s Sacred Geometry rounds out the program.
The adventurous programming Louisville audiences have come to cherish includes a world premiere Louisville Orchestra-commissioned work by Paola Prestini; collaborations with Bang on a Can All-Stars and “King of Newgrass” mandolinist Sam Bush; the sixth annual Festival of American Music featuring works by Samuel Barber and Gabriel Kahane, who also performs in the program; a special season finale edition of the popular “Teddy Talks…” series featuring Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Turangalîla-symphonie; world-class guest conductors and soloists; and much more. Engaging with the orchestra’s remarkable past while keeping it at the center of today’s vibrant Louisville music scene, Abrams’s “tireless advocacy and community outreach” are, Listen magazine notes, “putting the history-rich Louisville Orchestra – and classical music – back on the map.”
Looking ahead to the new season, Abrams explains:
“The 2020-21 season is historic for the Louisville Orchestra. Our journey to Carnegie Hall offers an opportunity to bring our community together around the Orchestra’s most cherished values: a commitment to creativity, living artists, and sharing a diverse range of musical styles and genres that reflects the vibrancy of Louisville itself. This is our moment to place the culture of Louisville and Kentucky on a national platform, and with this broader attention we wanted our season at home to demonstrate our vision for what a 21st century orchestra can be. My dedicated and brilliant colleagues on- and offstage deserve tremendous credit for the trajectory of the institution that has brought us to this exciting season.”
The Road to Carnegie Hall
A major highlight of the coming season is the return of the Louisville Orchestra to Carnegie Hall, only the third performance in the storied venue in the orchestra’s history (Feb 20). Louisville singer-songwriter Jim James joins the orchestra for the program, after the runaway success of last fall’s release The Order of Nature, his cross-genre collaboration with Abrams that topped both the U.S. Classical and Classical Crossover charts. Hailed as a “magical collaboration” (NPR), the album received immediate and unanimously enthusiastic critical acclaim. The Associated Press marveled: “You’ve never heard anything quite like this. … [It’s] an album that is sonically magnificent.”
Also on the all-American Carnegie Hall program is the performance of Aaron Copland’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ballet Appalachian Spring that was presented in collaboration with the Louisville Ballet in the spring 2019 edition of the Festival of American Music. The performance marked the first time new choreography – by South African-born Andrea Schermoly, then in residence with Louisville Ballet – had been approved by the Copland Foundation since the premiere of Martha Graham’s version in 1944. This part of the program has echoes of both previous Carnegie Hall performances: in 1950, under the direction of Louisville Orchestra co-founder Robert Whitney, Martha Graham herself performed on the program, and the second performance in 1989 featured Copland’s Orchestral Variations.
The Carnegie Hall program is rounded out with Sacred Geometry by Andrew Norman, praised by the New Yorker as “master of a uniquely dazzling and mercurial style,” who will hold Carnegie’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair next season. Norman is no stranger to Abrams who made his subscription season conducting debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic leading Norman’s first opera, A Trip to the Moon.
The Copland and Norman works will be performed in the Classics series in Louisville as well, in a concert titled “The Road to Carnegie Hall.” Exclusive to the Louisville performance is the Louisville Orchestra debut of Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist and “King of Newgrass” Sam Bush, who has played his brand of bluegrass, inspired by rock & roll and reggae, among others, at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for four-and-a-half decades and counting. Bush’s first big break was in Louisville: after he famously turned down an offer from country music superstar Roy Acuff, he landed a position instead with Louisville’s Bluegrass Alliance, which eventually morphed into the New Grass Revival and became one of the most influential bluegrass bands in history. As Roots Music Report said of Bush a few years ago: “Still presenting string-band music, he’s also picking his clarion notes so they blend and progress seamlessly and creatively into the future.”
THE BROWN-FORMAN CLASSICS SERIES
Opening night: Flower Power
The Classics series opens this season with a look back at the 60s, when Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, of which she is co-founder and co-artistic director, join the orchestra for her recent work Flower Power for orchestra and amplified ensemble. Premiered just this past January by the co-commissioning Los Angeles Philharmonic, Flower Power, as Wolfe says, “draws on my memory of that political and artistic time period, harnessing the energy and power of liberation and activism.” In addition to her Pulitzer win, Wolfe was a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, received the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in Music, and was named Musical America’s 2019 Composer of the Year. Complementing Wolfe’s piece is an earlier era’s version of turning on and tuning in: the drug-fueled dream depicted in Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (Sep 26).
Scheherazade: Paola Prestini Louisville premiere plus Ellen Reid
Paola Prestini’s Hindsight, a Louisville Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, and Chicago’s Ravinia Festival co-commissioned piano concerto written for pianist Lara Downes that celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution providing for women’s suffrage, receives its Louisville premiere in a concert entitled “Scheherazade” (April 24). The Log Journal calls Downes “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten,” and her latest album, Some of These Days, is a multi-genre collection of spirituals and freedom songs with collaborators as various as PUBLIQuartet and Toshi Reagon. Prestini – the co-founder and Artistic Director of Brooklyn’s cutting-edge venue National Sawdust – has won accolades including being named as one of the “Top 100 Composers in the World” (NPR), one of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music” (Washington Post), and Brooklyn Magazine’s 2019 list of “influencers of Brooklyn culture…in perpetuity.” Also on the program is Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Reid’s When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist, commissioned as part of the New York Philharmonic’s Project 19, also in celebration of the 19th Amendment. The work giving the program its title is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, based on the Arabian Nights and named after the Sultana whose creativity and ingenuity famously triumphed over the prejudices of her murderous husband.
Festival of American Music: Two Americas
It was the inaugural edition of the Louisville Orchestra’s Festival of American Music that prompted Arts-Louisville to conclude: “The orchestra, specifically this orchestra, is a living, breathing, evolving, and relevant art form.” The theme for this season’s festival is “The Two Americas,” juxtaposing works by Samuel Barber with a recent song cycle by Gabriel Kahane (March 27). Despite the fact that Barber’s earliest successes came as the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, with another World War just around the corner, his enduringly popular music is unabashedly romantic and reflects little of his turbulent times. Kahane, by contrast, is a realist, devoted to the nitty-gritty of actual experience and ordinary people. His song cycle Emergency Shelter Intake Form for voices and orchestra was co-commissioned by the Britt Orchestra, of which Abrams is also Music Director, and the Oregon Symphony, of which the composer has just been appointed Creative Chair. As Kahane relates, his starting point was a series of conversations with homeless people that all converged on the subject of “sleeping in chairs” as they tried to navigate the bureaucracy of the shelter system. “I started thinking about the banality of going through that crushing bureaucracy on top of experiencing extreme poverty,” he says. “That led to the intake form as a jumping-off point for the libretto.” Rolling Stone led the chorus of praise for Kahane’s previous song cycle Book of Travelers, calling it “a stunning portrait of a singular moment in America,” while the New Yorker raved: “at thirty-seven, he is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day… ‘Book of Travelers’ is a song cycle of unwavering seriousness, delivering snapshots of a broken and desperate nation.”
Teddy Talks: A Song of Love and Death
The final Classics concert this season is also a special edition of the popular “Teddy Talks…” series called “A Song of Love and Death,” featuring the tour de force 80-minute Turangalîla-symphonie by Olivier Messiaen (May 8). Now entering their fourth season, the “Teddy Talks…” concerts are a natural development of Abrams’s engagement with the Louisville community and his insistence on making the orchestra and its music accessible to all. He provides the audience with a window into the mind of the composer, entertainingly deconstructing the music before reassembling it in a full performance after an intermission. According to Arts-Louisville, his exposition of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony three seasons ago made “a good case against the decline of classical music,” leaving the critic “absolutely enthralled.” The concerts are reminiscent of Leonard Bernstein’s wildly successful Omnibus programs in the 1950s, and it was in fact a very young Bernstein who conducted the world premiere of the Turangalîla-symphonie with the commissioning Boston Symphony Orchestra, stepping in for an ailing Serge Koussevitsky. At the time of composition Messiaen was fascinated by the myth of Tristan and Isolde, and he derived the title from the Sanskrit words turanga and lîla, which according to the composer roughly translate into English as “love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death.”
Rounding out the Classics Series
Though virtually a by-word for adventurous programming, with swelling audiences that revel in new compositions and innovative ideas, the Louisville Orchestra is equally at home with and enthusiastic about the staples of the repertoire. In this season that witnesses a worldwide celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Abrams and the orchestra, along with soloists and a chorus still to be announced, present Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in two performances this fall, marking the first time the piece has been played by the Louisville Orchestra (Oct 17-18). Written toward the end of the composer’s life, around the time of the Ninth Symphony when he had lost the majority of his hearing, the Missa Solemnis is one of Beethoven’s greatest accomplishments, standing alongside Bach’s Mass in B minor as one of the most important mass settings in music history.
The Classics series also includes three concerts featuring guest conductors. November’s “Ravel’s Bolero” performance will be led by Abrams’s longtime friend Alasdair Neale, the newly appointed Music Director of the New Haven Symphony. He makes his Louisville Orchestra debut with a program that also includes Strauss, Debussy, and a Mozart Piano Concerto featuring Mexican pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, who has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the more elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet.” In January, fast-rising German conductor Christian Reif, a former student of Alan Gilbert at Juilliard and former Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony who makes a host of European and U.S. debuts in the current season, leads a program juxtaposing Tchaikovsky’s beloved “Pathéthique” Symphony with Stravinsky’s Funeral Song and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony. Finally, Ruth Reinhardt, another of Gilbert’s former students who served for two seasons as Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony and returns to conduct that orchestra three times this season, leads violinist Paul Huang as soloist in Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, along with Sibelius’s Second Symphony and the Helsinki Variations by Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski.
Season packages for the 9 concert series range from $185 to $680. 5-concert packages range from $120 to $380.
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THE BAIRD COFFEE SERIES
The popular Friday morning concert series offers audiences 70-minute concerts with a pre-concert coffee hour. A lively community of music lovers has coalesced around these performances as complimentary coffee is provided by Heine Brothers Coffee and hundreds of people attend the Concert Preview Talks before the performances. With programming selected from the week’s Classics Series concert, the Baird Coffee Series concerts serve a diverse audience of students, seniors, lunchtime downtown employees, and many who work at evening shift jobs. Season packages of 8 concerts range from $135 to $325.
THE REPUBLIC BANK MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS SERIES
The week before Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is another tribute to the Classical master in the Music Without Borders series, which takes the orchestra and Abrams’s creative programming out of the concert hall and into the community. On Oct 10, “A Beethoven Tribute” includes the Egmont Overture and an arrangement for orchestra of the “Hammerklavier” Sonata, and features Abrams himself as the pianist for a movement from the “Emperor” Concerto. Two contemporary works are also on the program: John Adams’s Absolute Jest uses material from Beethoven’s late string quartets, and Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, of which the third movement, “The Alcotts,” will be played in the orchestration by Henry Brant, quotes the opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. A second Music Without Borders concert on November 14 features Dvořák’s uplifting Eighth Symphony, on a program with music by two other Czech composers: Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava (The Moldau) and Bohuslav Martinů’s Intermezzo. Martinů’s piece was an early commission by the Louisville Orchestra, and was given its world premiere during their first appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1950. On January 9, a third Music Without Borders concert titled “Classic & Neo-Classic” contrasts Stravinsky’s Pulcinella suite, which marked the beginning of his neoclassical period of composition, with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, the first of his last three symphonies and one of the pinnacles of the Classical style. Finally, on March 20, the orchestra’s Assistant Concertmaster Julia Noone performs Mendelssohn’s E-minor Violin Concerto on a program called “Mendelssohn and Brahms.” All Music Without Borders concerts this season will be performed at the Paul W. Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana, just across the Ohio River from Louisville. The Music Without Borders Series is presented at the Ogle Center at Indiana University Southwest. The 4-concert season package is $65.
THE LO POPS SERIES
The LO Pops Series opens with a salute to the music of stage and screen in “Fantastic Film Music” (Sep 12). Scores that either made the leap from Broadway to Hollywood or vice versa hold a special place in the hearts of audiences. Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt includes music from The Sound of Music, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, and other selections in an orchestral tribute to the masters of the genre. Guest conductor Stuart Chafetz leads a “Holiday Pops” (Nov 28) and music director Teddy Abrams makes his Louisville Pops debut in “Prohibition: The Music of Moulin Rouge and the Boardwalk Empire” (Jan 23). We bring back Capathia Jenkins to the LO Pops as she performs “Aretha Franklin: A Tribute” (6 Mar) featuring music that is the soul of America – “Respect,” “Think,” “A Natural Woman,” and more. The series closes with a romp through the 80s with a trio of vocalists. Performing in “Decades: Back to the 80s,” these powerhouse singers rock the hits like “The Power of Love,” “Footloose,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” and more (Apr 16). Season packages of 5 concerts range from $125 to $360.
THE FAMILY SERIES
Family adventures in music are ready for all ages at the LO Family Series concerts presented on Saturday mornings at 11AM at the Brown Theatre. A “Halloween Spooktacular” (Oct 31) is loaded with thrills and chills for kids of all age who want to come in their favorite costumes. Enjoy “Home for the Holidays” (Nov 28) with traditional and popular Yuletide music for the entire family. And journey to the great beyond with music that travels to the planets and stars with “Space Adventures” (Mar 20) in the final concert of the three-performance Family Series. Affordable, fun, and educational, the Family Series is designed for young music lovers ages 3 to 12 years old and their families. Learn all about musical instruments, have pre-concert fun in the lobby with music activities for all ages, and enjoy the wonderful music by the full Louisville Orchestra. This is an excellent way to put young music lovers on the path to a life-long appreciation for great music. Season packages of 3 concerts are $41 for adults and $26 for children.
SEASON PACKAGES for the 2020-2021 SEASON
The Louisville Orchestra depends on the support of subscribers for the foundation of our financial future. The commitment of patrons to the LO sustains the year to year operations and makes the music happen. Season packages for each concert series are available now for subscription. Current subscribers get first right of renewal to keep their current seating or to have first choice of available seating. The deadline for renewal subscriptions is May 8. New subscribers are assigned to seating on a “first-come, first-served” basis. So early purchase gives the most options.
Subscribers receive a variety of benefits including exchange rights, priority seating, early bird purchase of additional tickets, concierge-level service, and no handling charges.
Season packages are priced based on seating location. Very affordable packages are available for all concert series. Patrons are invited to look at the prices and seating areas displayed online at www.LouisvilleOrchestra.org. Call for best service (weekdays; 9am – 5pm) at 502-587-8681.
Tickets to individual concerts will go on sale August 10.
About the Louisville Orchestra
Established in 1937 through the combined efforts of Louisville mayor Charles Farnsley and conductor Robert Whitney, the Louisville Orchestra is a cornerstone of the Louisville arts community. With the launch of First Edition Recordings in 1947, it became the first American orchestra to own a recording label. Six years later it received a Rockefeller grant of $500,000 to commission, record, and premiere music by living composers, thereby earning a place on the international circuit and an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall. In 2001, the Louisville Orchestra received the Leonard Bernstein Award for Excellence in Educational Programming, presented annually to a North American orchestra. Continuing its commitment to new music, the Louisville Orchestra has earned 19 ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, and was also awarded large grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the National Endowment for the Arts, both for the purpose of producing, manufacturing and marketing its historic First Edition Recordings collections. Over the years, the orchestra has performed for prestigious events at the White House, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and on tour in Mexico City, and their last two albums for the Decca Gold label, All In (2017) and The Order of Nature (2019) – the latter launched with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – both topped the Billboard Classical and Crossover charts. The feature-length, Gramophone Award-winning documentary Music Makes A City (2010) chronicles the Louisville Orchestra’s founding years, and in spring 2018, Teddy Abrams and the orchestra were profiled on the popular television program CBS Sunday Morning.
Louisville Orchestra: 2020-21 Season Concerts
Except where noted, all concerts take place at 8 pm at the Kentucky Center for the Arts
Sept 12
Pops Series
Fantastic Film Music
Bob Bernhardt, conductor
Sept 25 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Fantastique”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Hector BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
Sept 26
Classics Series
“Flower Power”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
With Bang On A Can All-Stars
Julia WOLFE: Flower Power
Hector BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
Oct 10 at 7:30pm
Music Without Borders Series • Beethoven 250
Paul W. Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast
“A Beethoven Tribute”
Teddy Abrams, conductor and piano
L.V. BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture, Op. 84
John ADAMS: Absolute Jest
Charles IVES (orch. Henry Brant): A Concord Symphony: III. The Alcotts
L.V. BEETHOVEN: Selected movement from Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 (“Emperor”)
L.V. BEETHOVEN (arr. Weingartner): Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”)
Oct 17
Oct 18 at 3pm
Classics Series • BEETHOVEN 250
“Beethoven’s MISSA SOLEMNIS”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
L.V. BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis in D, Op. 123
Oct 31 at 11am
Family Series
Brown Theatre on Broadway
“Halloween Spooktacular”
TBA, conductor
Nov 14 at 7:30pm
Music Without Borders Series
Paul W. Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast
“The Moldau”
Bedrich SMETANA: “The Moldau” from Má vlast
Bohluslav MARTINŮ: Intermezzo for Orchestra, H. 330
Antonin DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88, B. 163
Nov 20 at 11am
Coffee Series
“BOLÉRO and Other Treats”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Richard STRAUSS: Don Juan, Op. 20
Claude DEBUSSY (orch. Colin Matthews): Preludes
Maurice RAVEL: Boléro
Nov 21
Classics Series
“Ravel’s Bolero”
Alasdair Neale, conductor
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Richard STRAUSS: Don Juan, Op. 20
W.A. MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
Claude DEBUSSY (orch. Colin Matthews): Preludes
Maurice RAVEL: Boléro
Nov 28 at 11am
Family Series
“Home for the Holidays”
Stuart Chafetz, conductor
Nov 28
Pops Series
“Holiday Pops”
Stuart Chafetz, conductor
Jan 9 at 7:30pm
Music Without Borders Series
Paul W. Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast
“Classic & Neo-Classic”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Igor STRAVINSKY: Suite from Pulcinella
W.A. MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K. 543
Jan 15 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Festival of American Music: Revival”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Sam Bush, mandolin
Aaron COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
Selections by Sam Bush with orchestra
Jan 16
Classics Series
“The Road to Carnegie Hall”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Sam Bush, mandolin
With members of The Louisville Ballet
Andrew NORMAN: Sacred Geometry
Aaron COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
Selections by Sam Bush with orchestra
Jan 23
Pops Series
“PROHIBITION: The Music of Moulin Rouge, Boardwalk Empire, and more”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Jan 29 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Tchaikovsky’s Sixth”
Christian Reif, conductor
Igor STRAVINSKY: Funeral Song
Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”)
Jan 30
Classics Series
“Reif Conducts Tchaikovsky”
Christian Reif, conductor
Igor STRAVINSKY: Funeral Song
John ADAMS: Doctor Atomic Symphony
Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”)
Feb 20
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall Presents The Louisville Orchestra
Stern Auditorium
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Jim James, vocals
With members of The Louisville Ballet
Andrew NORMAN: Sacred Geometry
Aaron COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
Jim JAMES: The Order of Nature (orch. Teddy Abrams, NY Premiere)
Mar 6
Pops Series
“ARETHA FRANKLIN: A Tribute”
Bob Bernhardt, conductor
Capathia Jenkins, vocals
Mar 12 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Reinhardt Conducts Sibelius”
Ruth Reinhardt, conductor
Lotta WENNÄKOSKI: Helsinki Variations
Jean SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43
Mar 13
Classics Series
“Sibelius & Prokofiev”
Ruth Reinhardt, conductor
Paul Huang, violin
Lotta WENNÄKOSKI: Helsinki Variations
Sergei PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Jean SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43
Mar 20 at 11am
Family Series
Brown Theatre at Broadway
“Space Adventures”
TBA, conductor
Mar 20
Music Without Borders Series
Paul W. Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast
“Mendelssohn & Brahms”
Julia Noone, violin
Louise FARRENC: Overture No. 1 in E minor, Op. 23
Felix MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Johannes BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Mar 26 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Festival of American Music: Two Americas”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist
Samuel BARBER: School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5
Gabriel KAHANE: Emergency Shelter Intake Form
Mar 27
Classics Series
“Festival of American Music: Two Americas”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist
Samuel BARBER: School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5
Samuel BARBER: Adagio for Strings
Samuel BARBER: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9
Gabriel KAHANE: Emergency Shelter Intake Form
Apr 16
Pops Series
“DECADES: Back to the 80s”
TBA, conductor and vocals
Apr 23 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Scheherazade”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Apr 24
Classics Series
“Scheherazade”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Lara Downes, piano
Ellen REID: When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist
Paola PRESTINI: Hindsight (Louisville Orchestra commission & Louisville premiere)
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Op. 35
May 7 at 11am
Coffee Series
“Turangalîla”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Olivier MESSIAEN: Turangalîla-symphonie
May 8
Classics Series
“Teddy Talks: A Song of Love and Death”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Olivier MESSIAEN: Turangalîla-symphonie
All dates, programs, and artists are subject to change.
