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Strings Attached
Fabulous views of my recent Louisville Orchestra concert with Calexico and The Airborne Toxic Event, by O’Neil Arnold. [View the set on Flickr.]
Orchestrock
Who says orchestras don’t rock?
Tomorrow night I’ll lead the latest installment of the Louisville Orchestra’s most intriguing concert series, Strings Attached. Featured are two great bands, Calexico and The Airborne Toxic Event. Needless to say, I’m stoked to participate in yet another cross-genre concert and to collaborate with open-minded musicians from other quarters of the music business. [Poster by Madpixel]
Concert → Progressives → Louisville Orchestra
Featuring Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht in its first performance by the LO.
Latest from Louisville
If you are in the Louisville area this weekend come hear the opening concert of the LO’s new Summer Classics series, an Independence Day celebration at RiverStage on Saturday evening. The orchestra will be giving three subsequent concerts on the RiverStage barge across from downtown in Jeffersonville, with repeat performances at Ballard High School. [RiverStage concerts are free with a suggested donation of $10; Ballard performances are $10, payable at the venue.]
Earlier in the week I spoke with Daniel Gilliam at WOUL about my current activities in Louisville and Iowa, and offered a brief preview of tomorrow’s concert.
Interview with Daniel Gilliam
WUOL Classical 90.5, July 2009
A final piece of news from Louisville: I am one of three recipients nationally of the Bruno Walter Career Grant. The grant will support my work with the LO in 2009/10. Andrew Adler has the details for the Courier-Journal.
If music be the food ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra [along with more than 200 other ensembles] are participating in Orchestras Feeding America, a food drive initiated by the League of American Orchestras and Feeding America. CBS News’ Early Show will run a national piece on the program tomorrow, March 25.
The LO is accepting donations this weekend at the Kentucky Center. WCFSO donations can be made at the April 4 concert or at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center anytime before that date. Read about the WCFSO’s partnership with the Northern Iowa Food Bank.
Pure pipa
The first half of this week’s LO concerts [for which I am replacing an injured Joana Carneiro] consists of two pieces likely to be unfamiliar to Louisville audiences – Anatol Liadov’s vivid Kikimora, based on a Russian folk tale, and Tan Dun’s 1999 Concerto for Pipa and Strings. Here’s a close-up look at the pipa from soloist Zhoa Cong and Guardian journalist Dan Chung.
More on the instrument from the Guardian.
Stepping in
That’s what I will be doing this week, with the Louisville Orchestra. Nice program – please come hear it if you are in the area.
