Randy Newman brings Hollywood to Louisville Sept. 25
Louisville Orchestra kicks off its 2010–11 Pops season with Randy Newman: A Night of Hollywood Greats. Singer-songwriter Randy Newman brings Hollywood to the Derby City on Sept.. 25 at Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.
As guest artist at the 8 p.m. concert, the talented Newman, who has won the Academy Award, the Emmy Award and the Grammy Award, will lead the orchestra in movie and pop standards. The year’s Pops series focuses on a different American city for each concert, beginning with Los Angeles and Newman, who comes from a family of film-score composers. You can read about the rest of the Pops series here. Louisville Orchestra Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt will be conducting.
Newman’s breadth extends from composing songs for Disney children’s fare, such as the computer-animated Toy Story series and Monsters Inc. and the traditional animated film The Princess and the Frog, to scoring music for live-action movies Sea Biscuit, Meet the Parents, The Natural and Overboard to penning satirical ditties such as “Short People” to composing and singing the theme music for the television series Monk.
Rickets for the Sept. 25 concert range from $30 to $72 and go on sale Aug. 2. You can buy tickets online or by calling (502) 584–7777 or toll-free at (800) 775–7777. Or why not subscribe to the entire season? Subscriptions for the Louisville Orchestra Pops series range from $148 to $385. You can subscribe online or by calling (502) 587–8681. You can check out the seating chart before you buy.
Posted by Ivonne Rovira
