Kentucky Symphony Orchestra announces its 31st season; mark your calendars for great entertainment

The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra retains on truckin’ with its thirty first season offering Northern Kentucky and Larger Cincinnati with a singular model of tradition and leisure.

The orchestra is directed by James R. Cassidy.

For 2022-23 the KSO returns to Greaves Live performance Corridor on the campus of NKU for 4 of its 5 applications and a return to reserved seating/tiered pricing.

The season opens on Saturday, October 22.

Like final season, live shows will likely be supplied in-person and through reside streamed for $35 per single ticket or $150 for all 5 live shows for the perfect seats in the home.

Mark your calenders now for a season-full of spectacular leisure:

Brahmsicans vs Wagnercrats
7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 22
Greaves Live performance Corridor, NKU

The nineteenth c. debate between the faculties of conventional
 conservative symphonic and chamber music, championed
 by Johannes Brahms and the progressive, harmonically
 advanced, closely orchestrated, epic types most well-liked by
 Richard Wagner, led composers, musicians, critics and
 audiences to align themselves with one or the opposite musical camps.

The KSO thought it may be enjoyable to stage a debate between the 2 musical events, with every composer providing opening symphonic remarks (Rienzi Overture, Symphony No. 3) and reversing the order of their responses (5 Hungarian Dances, “Prelude and Liebestod”) earlier than every points temporary closing statements (“Trip of the Valkyries,” Hungarian Dance, No. 5).

The viewers will brandish buttons supporting their candidate composer. On-line surveys will decide the winner.

An Orchestral Puzzler
7:30 Saturday, November 12, 2022
Greaves Live performance Corridor, NKU

When pop music traverses into the symphonic realm, 
it’s usually the iconoclast who makes that foray. Frank 
Zappa actually went his personal method together with his model of 
rock music, and he left his ultimate impression in 1992
 with a set of brief symphonic works beneath the
banner The Yellow Shark.

Nineteen Seventies & ‘80s glam rocker/composer David Bowie and musician/producer Brian Eno penned songs for Bowie’s Low and Heroes albums, then teamed up with minimalist composer Philip Glass, who took their songs “Subterraneans” and “Abdulmajid” and included them into Glass’ “Low” Symphony and “Heroes” symphonic ballet.

Experiencing performances of any these works reside is a uncommon occasion anyplace on the planet.

Don’t miss them in Northern Kentucky.

Completely happy Toes

7:30 Saturday, January 21, 2023
Greaves Live performance Corridor, (NKU)

Among the world’s most beloved symphonic music is present in music of the dance and ballet scores. The KSO, in its quest to uncover distinctive and fascinating music, discovered three inspiring and numerous twentieth c ballet scores by Aaron Copland (Billy The Child Suite), William Grant Nonetheless (Sahdji) and Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat), which inform the tales of a wild-west outlaw, an African looking competition, and Spanish seduction.

The music and tales are colourful, using cowboy tunes, ceremonial drumming and chanting, and flamenco aptitude and sizzle. The Younger Skilled Choral Collective and mezzo soprano Quinn Ankrum will make their KSO debuts.

“They’re Grrreat!”

7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2023
Greaves Live performance Corridor, (NKU)

The KSO’s penchant for thematic programming doesn’t usually enable it to
 current classical works and not using a story or idea related to them.


KSO Musicians have requested Franz Schubert’s ninth Symphony (“The
Nice”C Main) for many years, so we known as upon an outdated cereal promoting 
marketing campaign to tie Rossini (Tancredi Overture), Mozart and Schubert 
choices along with — “They’re Grrreat!”

Michael Chertock, the
 KSO’s first visitor artist in 1992, performs Mozart’s effervescent Piano Concerto No. 23.

Swing Revival meets Electro Swing
7:30 Saturday, Could 13, 2023
The Newport Automobile Barn (Newport)

The KSO’s “Devou-Doo Daddies,” which specialize within the swing revival motion of the early to mid Nineties (Royal Crown Revue, Massive Dangerous Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and so on.) will make its subscription sequence debut, including a 2020s swing
part to its high-energy swing dance music.

As we speak’s world Electro
 Swing (Parov Stelar, Caro Emerald, Swingrowers, and so on.) infuses components of 
Hip-Hop inside its swing sound, making it truthful sport for KSO incorporation
and evolution. The KSO invitations patrons to seize a dance associate and put together for
 a brand new and outdated strategy to swing on the Newport Automobile Barn.

The KSO closes out its thirty first marketing campaign with Millennial vs Gen Z Swing.

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For 30 seasons the KSO has differentiated itself from extra conventional orchestral choices through its distinctive thematic shows and its mission to make symphonic music and the live performance expertise enticing, accessible and inexpensive.

Tickets for every present this 12 months stay the place they’ve been for a number of years at $35 to expertise nice musicians, visitor artists and modern programming distinctive to our area.

For individuals who want to remain residence, the KSO continues reside streaming every live performance (with a number of cameras) on your ‘at residence entry’ for the value of a single ticket.

Subscribers to all 5 reveals get in-person, preferential seating, versatile use and entry to reside streams with a $25 financial savings.

Tickets can be found on-line at kyso.org or by telephone at (859) 431-6216.

Artwork/Photographs supplied by KSO