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(A big band take on classical music — from Bach to Gershwin)


7:30  p.m. Saturday, May 10, 2025
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

Those who frequent the KSO (indoors and out), know that all forms of jazz fit comfortably within the KSO’s wheelhouse. Stumbling upon intriguing jazz orchestrations of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Gershwin, Holst, Suppe, Verdi, led James Cassidy to assemble an All-Star Big Band to end the 33rd season with a bang.

The concert opens with the jazz piano stylings of Eugen Cicero and his take on C.P.E. Bach’s Solfeggio in C minor. Consummate 1950s-60s arranger Billy May’s no-holds-barred approach to Hungarian Dance No. 5, Poet and Peasant Overture, Humoresque and others, paired with today’s big band guru Gordon Goodwin’s interpolations of the Two-part Invention in D minor, Symphony No. 40 in G minor and Rhapsody in Blue, and Jeremy Levy’s re-imagining of The Planets sets the stage for a veritable “hornucopia” of in your face classics à la jazz to close the KSO’s 33rd campaign.

                   On the Program

C.P.E. Bach / Eugen Cicero

Solfeggio in C minor

Albert Ketèlbey / Billy May

“In a Persian Market”

Niccolo Paganini / Skippy Martin

Caprice XXIV

Antonin Dvorak / May

Humoresque

Verdi / Jerry Gray

“Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore

Franz von Suppé / May

Poet & Peasant Overture

J.S. Bach / Gordon Goodwin

2-Part Invention In D minor

Johannes Brahms / May

Hungarian Dance No. 5

W.A. Mozart / Goodwin

Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Gustav Holst / Jeremy Levy

“Mars” from The Planets

Holst / Levy

“Uranus” from The Planets

George Gershwin / Goodwin

“Rhapsody in Blue”


Single Tickets
Available April 1

– A seats: $35
– B seats: $27
– C seats: $19
– Children (ages 6-18): 50% off
(Out of respect to patrons/musicians, children 0-5 are not admitted)

– Ticket sales subject to processing and handling: $1.50 per ticket plus credit card merchant fee 3.5%. Mailing an additional $1.15 if requested.

 

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