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New Music Makes a City Now episode launch! The Corner Room follows composer Rachel Grimes' world premiere with Louisville Orchestra
For indie composer Rachel Grimes, having her work premiered by the Louisville Orchestra at their Festival of American Music last spring was a dream come true. The prolific Louisville musician has several albums under her belt (both with the indie-rock chamber ensemble "Rachel’s" and solo), and has composed music for bands, chamber orchestras, and film. But this commission marked her first opportunity to compose and debut her own work with a major orchestra. This is a rare glimpse into one composer's creative process and how her music emerged from private imagination into the concert hall.
Available on YouTube now!
New York's features Britt Festival's world premiere of Michael Gordon's Natural History
Listen to the program here!
Sound in Motion: Louisville Flyover Film Festival presents selected Music Makes a City Now episodes in mixed media finale
The Louisville Film Society launches its 8th Annual Flyover Film Festival on July 24 – 29. Two documentaries that honor native sons Wendell Berry (The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry) and Harry Caudill (Harry Caudill: A Man of Courage) open the five-day event, which closes with mixed media finale on the Belvedere, Sound in Motion: Louisville Music On Stage & Screen
OBP begins co-production with Britt Festival to create documentary video about the Britt Orchestra's world premiere of Michael Gordon's Natural History at Crater Lake
The co-production with Britt Festival begins filming in Crater Lake on July 28th and will continue through July 30th.
Read more about the world premiere here!
Serenade for Haiti editor, Gina Leibrecht, is featured extensive interview in the March edition of Film International
Gina Leibrecht speaks about her work, filmmaking approach and collaboration with Les Blank in this article from the March edition of Film International.
The Christian Science Monitor names Music Makes a City Now as a Top Pick!
Read the article online here!
Music Makes a City Now special episode "Kentucky Royal Fanfare" featuring Prince Charles is now available on PBS.org!
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit Louisville, Ky. to meet with leading figures from around the globe to discuss pressing concerns facing life on Earth as part of the Louisville Health and Harmony Initiative. During their short trip, the city offers them the royal treatment with a concert in their honor. Watch as conductor Teddy Abrams creates and performs an original fanfare.
Watch it now on PBS.org
Louisville's 1200 aka Jecorey Arthur is featured in this new short video from WAVE 3 News!
WAVE 3 features 1200 aka Jecorey Arthur's life as musician and teacher. Check out the video from WAVE 3 here!
1200 was also featured in Episode 6 of Music Makes a City Now: All Together Now, which is available on YouTube.
Teddy Abrams is featured on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts!
Check out the video now at NPR.org.
Now streaming on PBS.org! Music Makes a City Now visits with Daniel Gilliam in The Radio Station
Daniel Gilliam, program director of Louisville’s classical music station Classical 90.5 WUOL Louisville, speaks about his perspective on the state of the arts, the city, and The Louisville Orchestra's new music man Teddy Abrams.
Available now on PBS.org
"Music Makes a City: Then and Now" panel at the American Musicological Society about the power of music in Louisville
Featuring LO Music Director Teddy Abrams and producer/director Anne Flatté
Music Makes A City Now: Conversation with Yuja is now Streaming on PBS!
Piano virtuosa Yuja Wang and conductor Teddy Abrams talk backstage about music and life.
Available now on PBS Arts
is now Streaming on PBS!
An insightful chat between conductor Teddy Abrams and his mentor, Michael Tilson Thomas.
Available now on PBS Arts
Teddy Abrams is on NPR! Listen to it now at NPR Music!
In Louisville, A Young Conductor Seeks To Challenge And Delight
Listen to Teddy "discuss engaging with broader audiences and the value of putting young contemporary composers on the same concert programs as Brahms"
Available now on NPR.org
Music Makes A City Now featured on KDFC’s “The State of the Arts” with Jeffrey Freymann
Listen to the program here!
San Francisco Classical Voice—Interview with Teddy Abrams about the series and his work
Read the article and watch the video here!
The Pilot Season of Music Makes A City Now launches today! Join the party online!
We're happy to announce the launch of the pilot season of our web series Music Makes a City Now with four new webisodes on PBS Arts! Please join the launch party online at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter #MMACNOW #MusicMakesACity
Available on PBS Arts today!
Music Makes A City Now: Ep. 8 Music is Alive is now on YouTube!
Teddy Abrams and the Sixth Floor Trio gather classical, folk, and bluegrass virtuosos—including songstress Aoife O’Donovan—for an experimental festival at Fairchild Garden in Miami, Florida. At GardenMusic, the artists “embrace the chaos” as they collaborate, workshop and perform pieces that defy musical labels and engage audiences of all ages.
Available on YouTube now!
Music Makes A City Now: Ep. 7 Sixth Floor Trio premieres today!
Teddy and old friends light up Louisville with their genre-blending side project, the Sixth Floor Trio. The trio, which includes four—Teddy Abrams, Harrison Hollingsworth, Johnny Teyssier and Gabriel Globus-Hoenich—met in 2005 while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read more about the episode here!
Also available on YouTube!