“The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has just announced its 87th season of classical and pops concerts at the ISO’s home venue, the Hilbert Circle Theatre,” which turns 100 during the 2016-2017 season, writes Tom Aldridge on Tuesday (3/1) at NUVO.net (Indianapolis). “Music director Krzysztof Urbański has programmed such large-scale masterworks as Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Brahms’ German Requiem, Mahler’s First Symphony (‘Titan’) and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra…. Urbański’s frequent collaboration with pianist Dejan Lazić continues this season with the performance debut of Lazić’s symphonic poem, Mozart and Salieri, an ISO commission.” The ISO’s third annual midwinter festival, with a theme of “Music of the Earth,” will feature Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. On opening night in September, the ISO will mark the Hilbert Circle Theatre’s “early beginnings as a movie house and many of Indiana’s great composers … conducted by Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly.… The ISO closes the season with a special choral presentation of Orff’s Carmina Burana and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.” Pops program will include “the world premiere of The ISO and the Doo Wop Project, a program that blends the ‘doo-wop’ style with a full symphonic experience.”
Posted March 2, 2016
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra photo by Michelle Pemberton
