The Lexington Philharmonic Proudly Announces the 2022 - 2023 Season: RENEWAL
The Lexington Philharmonic proudly announces the 2022 - 2023 Season, RENEWAL, a celebration of change and the ways in which we grow, expand, deepen and evolve in our work, art and lives. Concert themes explore the limitless potential of music-making, the forces that shape and influence us, and the spirit of renewal in our art, lives, and world. The 2022 - 2023 Season marks an historic moment for LexPhil, emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic with more regular performances and the naming of a new artistic leader for the organization. The next Music Director & Conductor of the Lexington Philharmonic will be announced this summer, and will lead the orchestra in performances for the 2022/2023 Season.
“We titled the 2022/2023 Season ‘renewal’ because it, in one word, captures the spirit of this moment within our organization,” says Allison Kaiser, Executive Director of the Lexington Philharmonic. “The next chapter of LexPhil begins this summer with the announcement about our next Music Director & Conductor. We are presenting a more robust performance schedule and are thrilled to once again offer subscriptions to our audience. The future is brighter, and as we emerge from the pandemic, we’re confident that our new artistic leader will build on the achievements and traditions of our orchestra, along with the ways our organization has grown and evolved over the last two years, to the benefit and enrichment of our whole central Kentucky community.”
In addition to LexPhil’s 2022/2023 Season concerts, LexPhil will also be introducing new educational and community engagement initiatives.
2022 - 2023 SEASON: RENEWAL
Featuring a range of venues and partners, some old and new, concerts during the 2022 - 2023 Season reflect LexPhil’s continued commitment to presenting excellent performances that explore new repertoire and diverse ways of engaging with art and music. From Aaron Copland’s expansive Symphony No. 3 to Ellen Taaffe Zwillich’s sweeping Symphony No. 1, much of the repertoire for the season has never been performed by the orchestra.The 2022 - 2023 Season highlights the artistry of our musicians, and both new and returning soloists and artistic partners. We also resume performances at some of Lexington’s favorite summer traditions, including the city of Lexington’s annual Patriotic Concert and Picnic with the Pops.
Patriotic Concert | Sunday, July 3, 2022
Presented by LFUCG Division of Parks & Recreation, this free community concert is an annual summer favorite.
FREEPicnic with the Pops | Saturday, August 13, 2022
The Meadow at Keeneland
Picnic with the Pops returns with Dancing in the Street: The Music of Motown, featuring Motown favorites made famous by artists including Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder at the Meadow on the grounds at Keeneland. Tickets and more information is available at www.lexpops.com.Symphonic Stroll with Josephine Sculpture Park | Saturday, September 10, 2022
Josephine Sculpture Park
Entry times at 4:00 PM & 5:00 PM | Performances from 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Building on the success of last season's inaugural event, Symphonic Stroll will feature LexPhil musicians performing chamber music across the beautiful grounds of Josephine Sculpture Park, “where art meets earth.” This family-friendly event will feature live music, interactive activities, and food trucks. Two entry times are offered for admission (4PM & 5PM) with performances occurring between 4PM - 8PM.
General Admission Tickets: $25Legacy - The Perry Family | Saturday, October 1, 2022
4:00 PM | African Cemetery No. 2
LexPhil is excited to continue presenting the works and sharing resources about the life and impact of Lexington-born composer Julia Perry. In October, LexPhil will present a free program of chamber works by Black female composers, Julia Perry and Florence Price, in partnership with African Cemetery No. 2 and Lexington Historian, Yvonne Giles. African Cemetery No. 2 is the site of many notable burials including, Isaac Burns Murphy, winner of three Kentucky Derbies and first African American inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, family members of composer Julia Perry, and Buffalo Soldiers/Spanish American War Veterans. The partnership between LexPhil and African Cemetery No. 2 hopes to continue to share the story of the Perry family while also sharing stories of Lexington citizens.
FREELimitless | Saturday, October 22, 2022
7:30 PM | Singletary Center for the Arts
LexPhil returns to the Singletary Center for the Arts in a concert program celebrating the unbounded potential in all of us. The evening opens with Gabriela Lena Frank’s Three Latin American Dances, inspired by the many musical traditions born of diverse Latin American cultures. Violinist Simone Porter returns as guest artist for Barber’s lyrical Concerto for Violin. Closing the program is Copland’s Third Symphony, with its famous quotation of his Fanfare for the Common Man, exhibiting his abstract voice and accessible beauty to create a score that is, in his words, “a serious statement.”
Tickets: $25 - $75 | Youth (17 & under) and Students: $11A Cathedral Christmas | Saturday, December 17, 2022
8:00 PM | Cathedral of Christ the King
LexPhil and The Lexington Singers return to the beautiful Cathedral of Christ the King for this Lexington holiday tradition in a program of sacred orchestral and choral works.
Tickets: $25 - $75 | Youth (17 & under) and Students: $11Continuous Variation | Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:30 PM | Singletary Center for the Arts
This concert at the Singletary Center for the Arts shares its name with a technique used by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwillich in her Symphony No. 1, a work which demonstrates the potential of a handful of ideas to develop into new material. Zwillich was the first female composer to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music for this work in 1983. Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto, unfinished at his death, was completed by Tibor Serly from sketches, memories and ideas, and features violist Jordan Bak. The evening concludes with Brahms’ beautiful Symphony No. 3, which incorporates cyclical techniques alongside folk melodies and musical codes.
Tickets: $25 - $75 | Youth (17 & under) and Students: $11The Power of Influence | Saturday, April 29, 2023
The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center
6:45 PM | Chamber Music in Community Room
7:30 PM | Concert Hall performance
The Power of Influence at the Lyric Theatre explores how artists are affected by external sources. With works by Mozart, Joseph Bologne - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Igor Stravinsky and Lexington-born composer Shawn Okpebholo, each piece is in a direct dialogue with influences from the past and present. In advance of the performance in the hall, additional pre-concert chamber music in the Community Room will include works by Villa-Lobos, Okpebholo and more.
General Admission Tickets: $25Bloom | Saturday, May 20, 2023
7:30 PM | Singletary Center for the Arts
The 2022 - 2023 Season finale concert Bloom marks the arrival of spring with works celebrating the beauty of color and renewal of the earth. Works celebrating the flourishing beauty of color include Anna Clyne’s Color Field and Schumann’s joyous Symphony No. 1 “Spring.” Guest percussion quartet Sandbox Percussion join the orchestra for Viet Cuong’s work Re(new)al for percussion quartet and orchestra, inspired by renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro and solar. The piece utilizes found objects, such as compressed air cans and crystal glasses, to create a visually and aurally stimulating landscape of choreography. Julia Perry’s Homunculus C.F. also features a robust percussion section of eight players, in an “unfolding” of musical material inspired by her father’s medical practice.
Tickets: $25 - $75 | Youth (17 & under) and Students: $11
TICKETS & MORE
Subscription renewal information will be sent to previous subscribers the week of May 23rd. Previous subscribers can renew their subscriptions, including seats held in the 2019/2020 Season, through August 1st, 2022. Subscribers also have the option to add both the Josephine Sculpture Park and Lyric Theatre performances to their season subscription.
New subscriptions and tickets will go on sale to the public on July 1st, 2022. For more information about subscriptions and tickets, please contact the Lexington Philharmonic at 859.233.4226, or visit lexphil.org.
2022 - 2023 SEASON
PATRIOTIC CONCERT
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Old Morrison at Transylvania University
PICNIC WITH THE POPS
Dancing in the Street: Music of Motown
Saturday, August 13, 2022
The Meadow at Keeneland
Gates open at 4:00 PM
Show begins at dusk | around 7:45 PM
Show ends around 11:00 PM
SYMPHONIC STROLL
Saturday, September 10, 2022
at Josephine Sculpture Park
3355 Lawrenceburg Rd
Frankfort, KY 40601
Rain date: Saturday, September 17, 2022
Entry times at 4:00 PM & 5:00 PM | Performances from 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LEGACY - THE PERRY FAMILY
Saturday, October 1, 2022 | 4:00 PM
African Cemetery No. 2
419 E Seventh St.
Lexington, KY 40508
Rain date: Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 4:00 PM
Repertoire by Julia Perry & Florence Price
LIMITLESS
Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 7:30 PM
Singletary Center for the Arts
405 Rose St.
Lexington, KY 40508
Gabriela Lena Frank - Three Latin American Dances
Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto
Simone Porter, violin
Aaron Copland - Symphony No. 3
A CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS
Saturday, December 17, 2022 | 8:00 PM
Cathedral of Christ the King
299 Colony Blvd.
Lexington, KY 40502
with The Lexington Singers
CONTINUOUS VARIATION
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Singletary Center for the Arts
405 Rose St.
Lexington, KY 40508
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Symphony No. 1: Three Movements for Orchestra
Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto (Serly Edition)
Jordan Bak, viola
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.3, in F major
THE POWER OF INFLUENCE
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center
300 E Third St.
Lexington, KY 40508
6:45 PM | Chamber Music in Community Room
7:30 PM | Concert Hall performance
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Adagio & Fugue for Strings
Igor Stravinsky - Concerto in E-Flat “Dumbarton Oaks”
Shawn Okpebholo - Zoom
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges - Symphony No. 1 in G major
BLOOM
Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Singletary Center for the Arts
405 Rose St.
Lexington, KY 40508
Anna Clyne – Color Field
Viet Cuong - Re(new)al: Percussion Quartet Concerto
Featuring Sandbox Percussion
Ian David Rosenbaum, Jonny Allen, Terry Sweeney, Victor Caccese
Julia Perry - Homunculus C. F.
Robert Schumann - Symphony No.1 in B-flat major “Spring”
VISION: LexPhil believes in the transformative power of live orchestral music and envisions a culture of curiosity for the creation and performance of great music and the essential role it plays in a vibrant community and education system.
VALUES: LexPhil is guided by an unwavering commitment to its core values of artistic excellence, innovation, collaboration and accessibility.
MISSION: To foster excellence and innovation in the performance and presentation of great music; to enrich the lives of our diverse citizenry; to educate current and future audiences and to bring distinction to our community through the orchestra’s presence and standing.
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The Lexington Philharmonic is supported by the Lexington Philharmonic Foundation.
All Lexington Philharmonic programs are made possible through the generous support of LexArts. In 2021-2022, the Lexington Philharmonic received $100,000 in unrestricted support.
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to the Lexington Philharmonic with state tax dollars and along with federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Singletary Center for the Arts hosts the core of LexPhil’s Season Series programs, and is a valued institutional partner of the Lexington Philharmonic.
Dupree Initiative for Innovation supports LexPhil’s commitment to innovation and artistic excellence.
The Hamilton Saykaly Garbulinska Fund supports LexPhil’s commitment to continued artistic growth and collaboration.
Special thanks to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government for its continued partnership in ensuring a flourishing future for the arts in Lexington and central Kentucky.