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By Andrew Adler Community Editor Recipients of the 2025 Jewish Community of Louisville Awards will be honored during the JCL’s Annual Meeting Monday, June 23 at the Trager Family JCC. The Blanche B. Ottenheimer Award – JCL’s highest honor – … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor In what he calls “a rebalancing of priorities,” Graham Parker has resigned as CEO of the Louisville Orchestra, citing the pressures of commuting between Louisville and New York City, home to his husband and two … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Once upon a time there was a young Jewish man growing up in northwest London who liked to sing. And pray. And when circumstances dictated, to question God. His name was Graham Parker – the … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Two inmates at a Nazi concentration camp create an opera, only to perish in Auschwitz along with their entire cast and orchestra – except for a pair of prisoners. One of them, a teenage violinist who … Read More
The Louisville Orchestra shared the below release following Sunday’s (Feb. 4) 2024 Grammy Awards, which recognized an exceptional collaboration involving the orchestra, Music Director Teddy Abrams, and pianist Yuja Wang. The Louisville Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Teddy … Read More
By David Y. Chack Guest Contributor In the wake of rising antisemitism in America and amid the uproar in Louisville over the killing of Breonna Taylor in March of 2020, Louisville Orchestra Music Director Teddy Abrams decided to challenge bigotry … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor There’s a moment in composer Joel Thompson’s “To Awaken the Sleeper” where a whirlwind of instrumental chaos gives way to noble figures in the horns — what Thompson describes as “a clarion call, a prophetic vision” … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor The Louisville Orchestra’s Saturday, March 11 “Journeys of Faith” concert – focusing on repertoire by Jewish and Black composers – features works that will be ciphers to most listeners. Consider, for example, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Ben Freed had barely settled into his role as Keneseth Israel Congregation’s new rabbi last spring when the email landed in his inbox. It had what seemed a routine request: Would he mention to his … Read More
Played with the right hands, musical instruments can tell stories. And sometimes, they are the stories. Such is the case with Violins of Hope, a collection of string instruments – mostly violins – that survived the Holocaust, meticulously restored by … Read More
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