“Neruda Songs,” a song cycle written by composer Peter Lieberson that became a parting gift to his dying wife, has earned the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. He began writing the song cycle in 2003 for his wife, the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. She performed it with the the [...]
Marty Rosen, who, unlike other Louisville reviewers, has a degree in music, caught the Del McCoury/Marty Stuart show at the Brown Saturday night. His review, published in the Courier-Journal, is as thorough and informed as any review of a bluegrass show I think I’ve ever read. Check it out here.
J. L. Puckett reviewed the Michael McDonald/Louisville Orchestra show at the Palace Theatre for the C-J. He liked it, by and large, though he said the song selection made for an up-and-down concert.