Walking into the Singletary Center for the Arts Saturday night, I noticed so many couples holding hands—was this a tipoff that romance was in the air? The program by the Lexington Philharmonic certainly promised as much. The concert opened with George Gershwin’s Cuban...

The cookie-cutter formula for orchestral concerts usually leaves room for one impressive guest: the concerto soloist who plays between the overture and the intermission, before the big symphony in the second half. But the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra has, for the...

Even back in the glory days of silent movie palaces, now almost a century ago, only the most luxurious of cinemas would have fielded an orchestra to accompany the wordless screen action; most had to make do with an organ or piano. What a sublime experience it was to...