The Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky has announced its 2014-15 season, the first under new Music Director Teddy Abrams, which will open in September with a premiere by Abrams in a concert that also includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Among highlights of the orchestra’s remaining nine programs in 2014-15 are a newly commissioned symphony by Sebastian Chang; Djuro Zivkovich’s On the Guarding of the Heart, for which Zivkovich received the 2014 Grawemeyer Award; and a vocal program in collaboration with choral groups from the University of Louisville, featuring Orff’s Carmina Burana and a movement of Carolina Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita, among other pieces. In addition to symphonies by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Brahms, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven, the season will also include Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, with soprano Storm Large; Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, with soloist Julian Schwarz; and “The Cowboys” Overture by John Williams.
Posted March 21, 2014
