When our daughters we little, 5, 8,and 11 ( they are now 25, 28,
and 31) my husband got tickets through his work and we went to our
first Yuletide event. The girls and I got all dressed up and we
"encouraged" him to as well. hehe. We drove downtown and we were
just mesmerized by what we saw. The girls started asking the next
year about the first of november are we going to the Yuletide
daddy? So for many years that was our annual event for the
holidays. The girls would love getting dressed up...Read More »
My fondest memory of Yuletide is going as a whole family last year
in 2009. My husband and I had gone to see the Yuletide show several
years back and I cried most of the way through the show, thinking
how I would love to be able to come back one day and bring the
whole family. We have three boys and they all love music and
dancing, but especially our youngest. The problem is that our
youngest son has autism. Being in a public place with a lot of
people and crowd noise is very troubling to him....Read More »
I was totally bummed on that December day in 2000... An Indiana
snow storm had cancelled my family's annual Christmas gathering in
Eastern Illinois. You see, my family is scattered throughout the
country, so we look forward to that day, all year long. I was
sitting at home, feeling sorry for myself, when a friend, who I
adored, called me up and said, "I'm coming to get you. We're going
downtown to Yuletide!" He braved the storm in his SUV and we slowly
made our way downtown. Once we arrived at...Read More »
My mother was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia on June 18,
1999. It was a horrific summer as she spent a month in the
hospital. Was home, going to get blood/platelets every week.
December of 1999, my grandmother, her mother passed away. Our
family had gone through a lot of emotions. The week after my
grandmother's funeral we planned to have an early Christmas. We
decided to start off our Christmas Celebration Weekend by going to
the Yuletide Celebration on a Friday nite. It was neat to...Read More »
My 8 year-old still can't believe that
cartoons were only shown on Saturday mornings "back in the day," as
she calls "my era." Yes, darling. No 24-hour access to
cartoons like digital cable, Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel
provide us today (sometimes I wish we could go back to less
programming). My brother and I had the same Saturday morning
ritual: make some hot chocolate on the stove and turn on
Bugs Bunny and his friends--Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck
and Yosemite Sam--and...
Symphonic Hits and Sound Off are
back! This week we open our second season with
one of the most exciting concerts yet including more symphonic
hits and our resident ensemble, Time for Three (Tf3). This
season Sound Off (our pre-concert event held in the
theater at 6:30 before the performance) also has a new host.
While I'm now in my third season as a staff conductor at the
ISO, I'm thrilled to be joining Sound Off to bring you a
behind-the-scenes look at our concerts. For my first Sound
Off we...Read More »
October 13, 1984
Charles Staff, writer & reviewer, Indianapolis Star
and Indianapolis News
"Thanks to Symphony, Circle's Jewel Glows"
Photo by Joe Young, The Indianapolis News
The Circle Theater made a smashing comeback and the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra staged a new beginning last night
in one of the biggest evenings in the cultural history of the
Hoosier capital. [Regarding Perlman's performance]
Of course, [John] Nelson had an ace up his sleeve with Itzhak
Perlman, who is definitely not...
Intern
Ben Luttrull is feeling the momentum now, as we near the home
stretch for the planning of the Circle the City for the
Symphony event on Aug. 7.
If my internship was with the Indianapolis 500, we
would be at about lap 350 right now: over halfway through and time
to start really focusing on pushing as hard as possible down the
stretch.
Some exciting things are happening with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's Circle the City event presented by Finish Line on Aug. 7. For example, our...
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Development intern Ben Luttrell gives us another glimpse into
planning for the ISO's Circle
the City for the Symphony event Aug.
7.
Between Conner Prairie trips, Circle the City for the
Symphony duties, internship adventures and the dreaded
“professional development," I’d say I’m having quite the summer so
far at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The honeymoon of
“Wow, I have my own phone line!” has faded into the “I’m expected
to do real work” feeling, but I’m quite excited to report that...
Ben
Luttrell gives us his third installment of his thoughts about the
ISO's Circle the City for the Symphony event. Perhaps
I need to give him his own blogroll?
I was a team captain for Ball State University's Relay for Life
this past April. The opportunity I had to work with the BSU chapter
of PRSSA (the public relations group for students) was good, but
the real pleasure for me came from the opportunity to tell people
all about this wonderful event and the cause it supports. It wasn’t
about me...
Ben
Luttrull is an intern with the ISO this summer and is working on
the Symphony's Circle
the City for the Symphony event in
August. I've turned my blog over to him to talk about this
important fundraising event for the ISO.
When I first found out I was going to be an
intern with the ISO this summer, I started mentally racing
through what my first assignment was going to be. I’d like to say I
was prepared for the 35,000-plus people at the Mini-Marathon Expo,
but I had sadly focused on more...
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...Read More »Now that the calendar has turned to April and the gray, cold days
of winter are gone for a while, signs of brighter days are
appearing everywhere. Winter coats hung in the closet, new
buds on trees, and enjoying the great outdoors are all signs of the
rejuvenation that comes with spring.
Maybe the weather had something to do with the renewed sense of energy on stage at the theater this past weekend. After a well deserved week of vacation, the orchestra welcomed Mark Wigglesworth back the podium...Read More »
Maybe the weather had something to do with the renewed sense of energy on stage at the theater this past weekend. After a well deserved week of vacation, the orchestra welcomed Mark Wigglesworth back the podium...Read More »
Hi
All:
Just returned home from a sold out Pink Floyd Tribute Band concert
with the ISO. The light show was dazzling. And I
believe the ISO received at least three standing ovations from the
appreciative (of ALL) ages audience. Possibly you were there and
will comment.
I loved the outfits worn by our audience. Walking in from the
convenient parking garage I saw a couple that looked like they were
dressed for a prom while many others were in jeans. One can always
be comfortable at the Hilbert...
Over the past few days a group of very talented young people could
be seen milling about the backstage area of the Hilbert Circle
Theater. As they waited, many could be seen playing with cell
phones or chatting with friends. Things you might expect a
group of teenagers to be doing to kill some time. A passerby
might see this gaggle of young men and women and think nothing was
out of sorts, save the formal attire they were wearing. But
these people were far from your normal mall loitering...Read More »
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... Read More »
Phones buzzing, people viewing their screens, or getting up from a
performance are all distractions. The audience is made up of people
who paid to witness a performance. Unless you're on stage, leave
the devices at home or off. And I mean "OFF" off, as in totally
inoperational. If a group wishes to have some interactive terminals
or solicit cell contributions after the show that's fine with me.
Otherwise, kindly don't interrupt my entertainment experience. We
can all wait until we get home to...Read More »
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...
Read More »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...Read More »
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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