The Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky is in the midst of a three-week Festival of American Music, which began on March 19 with a concert featuring the orchestra and Pink Martini, led by Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt. On March 20, LO Principal Second Violinist Robert Simonds performed a solo recital featuring music of Kentucky composers, including Mason Bates, Daniel Gilliam, and Bill Monroe. On March 25, Music Director Teddy Abrams will serve as clarinet soloist and conductor in a concert including the Copland Clarinet Concerto and Ives’s Thanksgiving and Forefathers’ Day. The festival will conclude on April 9 with Copland’s Symphony No. 3, the first movement of John Adams’s Harmonielehre, Mason Bates’s Mothership, featuring the composer on electronica, and Chase Morrin’s Two and a Half Songs—Concerto for Improvising, with Morrin as piano soloist. Also featured during the festival are vocalist Aiofe O’Donovan and fiddler/violinist Jeremy Kittle.
Posted March 22, 2016
