“In Harmony – The Commonwealth Tour of the Louisville Orchestra” brings music to venues across the state for free.
This year’s tour will be broken up into three parts.
For the April leg of the tour, stops will be focused on eastern Kentucky with special guest Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper traveling alongside the orchestra.
The first leg will run close to the Kentucky Derby, and the orchestra will feature race-themed music like Morton Feldman’s “Flourishes and Galop” as well as a new concerto for pipa, a Chinese stringed instrument, from Baldwin Giang, a current Creators Corps composer.
Picking back up in July, the tour makes its way through central Kentucky with stops in Glasgow, Elizabethtown, Greenville and Bardstown.
The central Kentucky leg will feature Americana-themed compositions and highlight talent within the orchestra with a heightened focus on soloists.
Also in July, the Louisville Orchestra will debut a new mobile stage which they hope will make playing in less conventional venues easier.
The new mobile stage and the “In Harmony” tour are supported by funds from the Kentucky legislature. Lawmakers approved $4.3 million in the most recent budget to continue to support the tour.
The tour wraps in September with stops in southeastern Kentucky.
One of the final stops of that leg of the tour will be at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park — a first-time stop for “In Harmony.” Cumberland Falls is one of the few places in the world where a moonbow can be observed.
New music from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps inspired by the moonbow will be played during this performance.
With many of these performances taking place within the Appalachian mountains, Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” will be a featured work.
The full tour schedule with location is below:
April tour of eastern Kentucky featuring Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
April 26: Shelbyville
- Martha Layne Collins High School Gym
April 29: Prestonsburg
- Mountain Arts Center
April 30: Ashland
- Paramount Arts Center
May 1: Mt. Sterling
- The Arena at Montgomery County High School
July tour of central Kentucky
July 8: Glasgow
- The Square
July 9: Elizabethtown
- Freeman Lake Park Bandstand
July 10: Greenville
- Felix E. Martin Jr. Hall
July 13: Bardstown
- Stephen Foster Story
September tour of southeastern Kentucky
Sep 11: Harrodsburg
- Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Sep 12: Beattyville
- Happy Top
Sep 13: Hazard
- The Forum
Sep 18: Campbellsville
- Taylor County High School
Sep 19: Corbin
- Cumberland Falls State Resort Park
Sep 20: Harlan
- Harlan Elementary School
