Kentucky Symphony Orchestra

Nosferatu
2025-10-31 | Greaves Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, 1 Louie B Nunn Dr, Highland Heights, KY, 41076, United States
(A Symphony of Horrors)

7:30 p.m. Friday, October 31, 2025
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU
Join the KSO on All Hallow’s Eve for F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu, together with a new score based on Heinrich Marschner’s 1828 opera — Der Vampyr, adapted by Timothy Brock. A special cartoon preview of Disney’s 1929 cartoon “The Skeleton Dance” will be screened prior to the feature film! Attend dressed as your favorite cinematic vampire and receive a free, bloody-good drink courtesy of the KSO.

Don’t miss the film that started the campy fang-fests of the last 103 years accompanied live by a (singerless) opera score!

Heinrich Marschner

Nosferatu

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Missa Solemnis
2025-11-22 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral, 325 W 8th St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, United States
(The Mt. Everest of choral-orchestral works)

7:30 Saturday, November 22, 2025
St. Peter in Chains Cathedral Basilica, Cincinnati, OH
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis may be the greatest piece never heard. Its musical, technical, and endurance challenges make it incredibly difficult for the chorus. Completed in 1824 (the same year as the 9th Symphony), the totally deaf composer would never attend a full performance of what he regarded as his best work.
The KSO tackles Beethoven’s epic solemn mass Missa Solemnis Op. 123 with a professional choir and soloists.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Missa Solemnis Op. 123
Erin Keesy, soprano
Matilda Smolij, alto

Pedro Barbosa, tenor
Stephen Hanna, bass

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Galerie Fantastique
2026-02-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Greaves Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, 1 Louie B Nunn Dr, Highland Heights, KY, 41076, United States
(Music inspired by the visual art of Van Gogh, Warhol & Hartmann)

7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 7, 2026
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

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.

On the Program

Andrew Strawn
Flowers from Vincent (2023) (World premiere)

Michael Daugherty
Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol (2022) (Tristate premiere)

Modest Mussorgsky (orch Ravel)
Pictures at an Exhibition

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Art & Anxiety
2026-03-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Greaves Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, 1 Louie B Nunn Dr, Highland Heights, KY, 41076, United States
(Societal and Political Storm & Stress of the 1760s-70s)

7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21, 2026
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

With the rebellion against the Enlightenment’s rational order (and gathering clouds of war 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.

On the Program

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Larghetto & Chaconne (Dance of the Furies) from Don Juan

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Symphony in B minor

Luigi Boccherini

Symphony for Strings in D Minor (La casa del diavolo)

Leopold Koželuch

Symphony in G minor (Tristate Premiere)

Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 39 in G minor

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
2026-05-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Greaves Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, 1 Louie B Nunn Dr, Highland Heights, KY, 41076, United States
(An evening of Simon & Garfunkel)

7:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, 2026
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

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.
Enjoy “Mrs. Robinson” and “Scarborough Fair” to “My Little Town” and “Me and Julio” to “Cecilia” and “Still Crazy” and many more. Enjoy an entire evening of arrangements adapted by KSO arranger, Terry LaBolt.

Mrs. Robinson

Kodachrome

Disney Girls
The Boxer

Slip Sliding Away
I Only Have Eyes for You

You Can Call Me Al
Homeward Bound

Breakaway
Me and Julio (Down by the Schoolyard)

Cecilia
Scarborough Fair

I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will be Forever)
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Same Old Tears on a New Background

Still Crazy
Bridge Over Troubled Water

My Little Town
The Sound of Silence

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