Name: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
Start: 2026-05-15T19:30:00
Location: Greaves Concert Hall

Kentucky Symphony Orchestra

Visual art has inspired music for centuries. The art of Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Viktor Hartmann will be projected over the orchestra as the KSO performs the works evoked by them. Local Ryle H.S. graduate and CCM student Andrew Strawn’s Flowers from Vincent receives its world premiere, along with an area premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Warhol inspired work.  Modest Mussorgsky’s war-horse (orchestrated by Ravel) closes the program spotlighting visual art.

Gallerie Fantastique

Greaves Concert Hall

Celebrate Black History Month with this exceptional cross-curricular opportunity.  A performance and slide show by the KSO’s Newport Ragtime Band surveys the roots of American musical heritage. The program features ragtime, blues, Dixieland and early jazz from 1898-1933, with tunes by legendary black musicians/composers Scott Joplin, James Reese Europe, W.C. Handy, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller and others. The program also highlights many local Cincinnati connections to this music’s national popularity and historical significance.  The Q & A session at the end of the concert allows students and teachers the opportunity to ask questions of any musician on-stage.

Rags to Riches

7 Hills Church

With the rebellion against the Enlightenment’s rational order (and gathering clouds of war and and revolution in Europe and America’s colonies), art, literature, theater and music found its own way to interpret societal storm and stress.  The program focuses on works penned between 1760s and 70s in a short period referenced as Sturm und Drang. The KSO’s Associate Conductor Thomas Consolo foments the evening’s toil and trouble.

Art & Anxiety

In 1965, the duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel parlayed their new folk/pop sound, featuring poetic lyrics, beautiful melodies and vocal harmonies, to become one of the biggest acts of the 1960s. Josh Steele, Zack Steele and Adam Wheeler supply the vocals to hits spanning the 1960s through the ’80s.