As
you’ve probably heard by now, my time as Associate Conductor of
the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is quickly
drawing to a close – I’ll be conducting the last concerts of my
tenure this weekend at Marsh
Symphony on the Prairie, before I head to Boston to take
up a new position.
As I reflect on my two years here in Indy, I’m struck by how
fortunate I’ve been to have had an incredible diversity of
opportunities with the ISO, conducting on every concert series,
from the classical subscription...
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I’m
thrilled to this week have the privilege of making my debut on the
ISO’s classical subscription series, as I approach the end of my
tenure here in Indy. Most of the concerts I’ve conducted over
my two seasons here have been on one rehearsal, and the musicians
of the ISO are such pros that they can put together a good show on
that kind of short schedule. But without being too
presumptuous, what I think the ISO players and I both live for is
the chance to really delve into the details of the...
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Time
flies when you’re having fun, and so we’ve come to the last
Symphonic Hits series performances of the ISO season –
which also means our last Sound Off preconcert events of the season
(hosted by yours truly, as usual). Friday and Saturday’s
performances are led by guest conductor
Jun Märkl, and feature Brahms’
Symphony No. 2 along
with two virtuosic works for piano and orchestra: Liszt’s
Piano Concerto No. 2, and Saint-Säens’
Africa,
with piano soloist
Marc-André
Hamelin. I’ll be hosting...
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Greetings
all!
Sound Off, the preconcert event that I host,
returns to its usual time (6:30PM) for this Friday and Saturday
night’s concerts in the ISO’s
Symphonic Hits series.
This week’s program presents a wonderful variety of music led by
guest conductor
Krzysztof Urbanski: Lutoslawski’s
Little
Suite, Mozart’s
Piano Concerto No. 23, featuring
pianist
Dejan
Lazic, and Dvorak’s beloved
Symphony No. 9, “From the
New World.”
As usual, at Sound Off this week, we’ll talk some about the music
on...
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This coming Friday and Saturday,
I’ll be hosting our preconcert event
Sound Off at a
special time – 6:00pm. This is because the Honor Orchestra of
America will be performing at 7:00pm, before the ISO hits the stage
at 8:00pm, for
this week’s performances in the
Symphonic
Hits series. We invite you to make a full evening of it
at the Hilbert Circle Theater with Sound Off and the two
performances!
The ISO performance will feature wonderful staples of the
repertoire, with guest conductor
James...
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Happy New Year, everyone – I hope 2010 is off to a
terrific start for all of you!
This coming Friday and Saturday, the
8th and 9th, the ISO’s series of popular
classics, Symphonic Hits powered by Lilly, returns
to the Hilbert Circle Theater stage, and of course, that also means
the return of Sound Off, the preconcert event that
I host one hour prior to each concert (AKA 6:30pm).
This week’s concert program is full of
spectacular music, including a suite of excerpts from my favorite
work by...
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Every year, the Vienna
Philharmonic, one of the world’s most acclaimed orchestras,
performs a series of
New Year’s Concerts on December 30, 31, and January
1. These concerts have become beloved
around the world through the annual broadcast of the New Year’s Day
performance. These programs feature
almost exclusively Austrian music, and in particular, music of the
Johann Strauss family: waltzes, polkas,
overtures, and the like.
I’m thrilled that this year, for the first
time in a number of...
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That's the number of people in the audience the ISO and I
played for on Sunday night when we performed the Star-Spangled
Banner at the Colts-Patriots game at Lucas Oil Stadium - equivalent
to almost 38 times the capacity of the Hilbert Circle
Theater! I'm guessing that it was the largest audience the
ISO has ever played for, and it was definitely record attendance
for Lucas Oil Stadium (they announced that later, during the
game).
It was a pretty surreal experience all the way around - before...
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That was the advice given to me by a friend upon hearing
that I would be conducting in front of a live audience of 63,000
people tonight. Another friend of mine
(this one is also a conductor) joked “Don’t screw it up, or your
career will be over.” The ISO and I are
hitting the road tonight to perform in what is for us a pretty
unusual (but exciting!) venue – Lucas Oil Stadium, about a mile
away from our home at the Hilbert Circle Theater. We’ll be playing the national anthem before...
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