Lunchtime Classics Schedule
The Lunchtime Classics concert series takes place at noon, Wednesdays at Classical 90.5 located at 619 S. 4th Street in downtown Louisville. Doors open at 11:45am. Brown bag your lunch and join us for this free performance. If you’re a member of Classical 90.5 at the $52 level or higher, call to reserve a free lunch from the City Café (first 20 callers receive a lunch). Call (502) 824-6565 to reserve your lunch by noon the Tuesday before the show. Seating is limited.
January 25: Rebroadcast
February 1: KY Opera – The Merry Widow
February 8: Spencer Sharp, violin (Classical 90.5 Young Artists winner)
February 15: Vernon Cherrix piano students
February 22: Rebroadcast (No live concert)
February 29: Concentus String Quartet
March 7: MacCauley Chamber Music Competition winners
Lunchtime Classics Audio Archive
Lunchtime Classics returns for a new season on September 7. Until then, explore our LC audio archive page, with performance audio that goes back to 2006.
Lunchtime Classics Schedule
Lunchtime Classics Free Concert
Noon, on Wednesdays at Classical 90.5
619 S. Fourth Street in downtown Louisville,
next to the Palace Theatre.
January 5: Classical 90.5/PNC Wealth Management Young Artist Competition Winners Recital
January 12: Rebroadcast (No live concert)
January 19: Anne Richardson, cello
January 26: Deborah Lander, viola
February 2: Kentucky Opera & Choral Arts Society
February 9: Rebroadcast (No live concert)
February 16: Rebroadcast (No live concert)
February 23: TBA
March 2: Wayne Krigger, cello, plays music by Andy McLeroy
March 9: Macauley Chamber Competition Winners
March 16: Sacred Heart Academy Faculty
March 23: Kentucky Center Chamber Players
March 30: Rebroadcast (No live concert)
April 6: Saulo DeAlmeida (cello) and Friends
April 13: No Live Concert – Pledge to Classical 90.5
April 20: Campbellsville University Chamber Choir
April 27: Campbellsville University Woodwind Ensemble
May 4: No Live Concert
May 11: No Live Concert
May 18: No Live Concert
May 25: Darlene Welch, soprano
(END OF SEASON UNTIL SEPTEMBER)
Lunchtime Classics – Classical 90.5 Young Artist Recital
The 2010 Classical 90.5 Young Artist Competition Winners’ recital was presented on Wednesday’s Lunchtime Classics. Cellist Ann Richardson, 13, presented Haydn’s Concerto in D and Marimbist Neil Rao, 15, played the Marimba Concerto by Rosauro.
Photo: Philip Vancelette
Harpist, Mary Dicken
Harpist Mary Dicken presented a recital of beautiful selections for the holiday season. Here she plays the Interlude (Harp Solo) from Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28, by Benjamin Britten.
Tenor, Samuel Tandei
Tenor Samuel Tandei is a native of Bandung, Indonesia. He is in his final year as a student in the Master of Divinity in Church Music program at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mr. Tandei performed works by J.S. Bach, Mochtar Embut, Hanna Priharto, W.A. Mozart, Ponchielli and Ananda Sukarlan. Ruthanne Fulton is the pianist.
Sukarlan: Malam Kebumen; Pria yang pergi jauh and Surat kertas hijau
Pianist, Diane Earle
Pianist Diane Earle performed works by J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Claude Debussy and George Gershwin.
Liszt: Concert Etude No. III “Un Sospiro”
Kentucky Opera – Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini’s immortal Madame Butterfly is the next production by Kentucky Opera (November 19 and 21). General Director David Roth hosts this introduction to the opera with Yunah Lee as Cio-Cio San, Adam Diegel, Pinkerton, John Fanning, Sharpless, and Mika Shigematsu, Suzuki.
Pianists Jay Coughlon and Ethan McCullom
Jay Coughlon and Ethan McCollum performed a program of duos and solos. Both are students of Dror Biran at the University of Louisville School of Music.
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole: Feria (arranged for piano four-hands)
Cellist Paul York & Pianist Dror Biran
Cellist Paul York and pianist Dror Biran provided a preview of their October 13th faculty recital on Lunchtime Classics. In addition to playing Schubert and Shostakovich, the duo played a work by Cincinnati composer Douglas Knehans.
