Andrew Adler had a busy week for the C-J; besides his previews, he reviewed the Kentucky Opera’s production of “Samson and Delilah.”

Andrew Adler makes his choices, plus commentary, of the programs for the 2008-2009 seasons of the Kentucky Opera, Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet.

Over at the C-J, critic Andrew Adler has a preview of the Kentucky Opera’s production of “Sampson and Delilah,” with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves singing the role of Delilah and tenor Stephen O’Mara as Sampson.

Like his musical compadre J. L. Puckett at the Courier-Journal, Andrew Adler has to pull double and triple duty many weekends, reviewing concerts plus writing a regular column and the occasional feature piece. This week, he has a review of the Louisville Orchestra’s Martin Luther King Concert

Adler also previewed the Kentucky Opera’s upcoming season as well as a feature on the accessibility of the Kentucky Center. The price of keeping the Gannett Company’s profit center running is a steep one.

Music News Items From the Holiday Weekend

Maybe you took the weekend off and just didn’t read the paper; maybe you’ve been out of town. In any case, here are some interesting items from the C-J:

Marty Rosen reviewed Kenny Rogers’ show with the orchestra.

Andrew Adler interviewed cantor Paula Pepperstone in the Sunday paper. Adler also previewed the Kentucky Opera’s production of “Turandot.”

J. L. Puckett reviewed a Flaming Lips‘ DVD

Andrew Adler Critiques Websites

The C-J’s Arts maven, Andrew Adler, takes a look at the websites of the Louisville Orchestra, Louisville Ballet, Kentucky Opera and Actors Theatre and finds them wanting. But then, these are mainstream, old line arts groups, dedicated to presenting performances that could have appeared in anytime over the last century or so. Why would they be up-to-date on the web?

Sundays are the day the C-J goes heavy on the ‘Fine Arts’ in music and this Easter Sunday is no different. Andrew Adler pulls extra duty and covers the new season of the Louisville Ballet, which has partnerships with the Kentucky Opera and the University of Louisville School of Music . He also does a bio piece on Robert Amchin, head of the music-education and music-therapy divisions at the University of Louisville School of Music

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J. L. Puckett previews the Decemberists show at the Brown Theatre on Friday, April 13.

Apple iTunes has made another step into the new music marketing model with the introduction of “Complete My Album,” whereby a customer who has previously bought on or more singles for 99 cents can buy the complete album, with the cost of those previous purchases deducted from the total cost of the album. Everybody is commenting on it; you can get the straight scoop at iTunes.com

I hope everyone got through their Irish fling yesterday and didn’t acquire anything more problematic than a green beer hangover. The Celtic musicians are no doubt sleeping in today, as they have been cramming most of a year’s worth of playing into just a couple of days. That’s because there aren’t too many gigs for Celtic players in Louisville these days.

For U of L fans, today is also a sad day; the Cardinal basketball team lost to Texas A&M yesterday in the NCAA Tournament, so now Louisville fans will have to root for the Kentucky Wildcats, a favor unlikely to be returned by Wildcat fans. Oh, well, wait ’til next year.

On the deadtree front, LMN’s Jazz columnist, Martin Z. Kasdan, Jr., goes off base to contribute a preview (to the C-J) of tonight’s Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra show at the Kentucky Center.

Walking all over Marty’s usual New Orleans territory, Andrew Adler reveals that he has major NOLA connections, with an in-law business that his wife now runs. Along the way, he discusses the problems that the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Orleans Opera face in the post-Katrina reality that is New Orleans, particularly with respect to simply finding a place to perform. Adler notes that he will likely be reminded of this the next time he complains about the sound quality of the Kentucky Center.

—-PMM

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