The Score | Concert and a Movie

The Louisville Orchestra’s opening-night concert in October made it to the silver screen—the gigantic outdoor screen at the Sauerbeck Family Drive-In in La Grange, Kentucky. There were 200 parking spots for the pre-recorded concert, which featured Music Director Teddy Abrams and the orchestra in “Beethoven’s Third—A Concert for Healing,” and the event included a post-concert showing of the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. The program featured the first movement of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst, and two works with bass-baritone Davóne Tines: Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach and two movements of Caroline Shaw’s By and By for voice and orchestra. A highlight was the orchestral premiere of Tines’s composition VIGIL, which paid tribute to Louisville native Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020 by plainclothes police officers. Collaborators for VIGIL included producer Igee Dieudonné and Matthew Aucoin, who arranged the score. For those who couldn’t make it to the drive-in, the music was streamed as part of the orchestra’s LO Virtual Edition on-demand series.