Indianapolis Music Venues

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)....Read More »

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...Read More »

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...Read More »