If you asked me what's been happening this week, this is how I
would sum it up. Maestros. Mansions. Memory. Music. And Jimmy
Fallon.
Our new Music Director, Krzysztof Urbanski ("just call me Krzys")
arrived late Sunday evening. It's been a privilege for me to host
our maestro around town, especially to venues like Lucas Oil
Stadium for a photo shoot on Monday (Krzys will be appearing on the
cover of the winter edition of the Indianapolis Convention
& Visitors Association's 4/c visitor guide)....
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I purchased a new toy for myself last spring: a fancy-schmancy
Nikon 3100 digital camera (it also takes video, although I'm not
interested in reading that page yet in the handbook. One thing at a
time for this beginner).
I don't want to be a professional photographer or even an amateur
for that matter. I just want to play one on TV.
So this season, I put myself to work at several Marsh
Symphony on the Prairie performances to capture a bit
of the audience, the environment, the entertainers and...
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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...
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Hi
Everyone:
Went to
Chicago to drop off the ISO xylophone bars
for tuning (yes, the wood bars go out of tune) and visited with my
ex-high school student Matt Decker, a junior at Roosevelt (a
terrific music school). Sat in stage seating (just like the Hilbert
Circle Theatre)...had not heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for
many years. What a great orchestra and great luck for me they
performed the Shostakovich Symphony 11 we are playing
next week. If you did not know, our talented...
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Fauré’s Requiem: La berceuse de mort *
Orchestras around the world perform Requiem masses quite regularly
as part of their season. Apart from orchestral works based on
love, heroism or nature, the Requiem Mass seems to be one of the
very few genres that concentrate on a particular event in a
person’s life: death. What intrigues us is how each composer
utilizes the same liturgical texts from the mass proper but applies
it differently in the music.
Without going into a history of each composer’s...
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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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