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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - May. 20, 2013]
The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra gave its final 2012-2013
concert at Butler U.'s
recently completed Schrott Center
for the Arts, its new home venue.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - May. 18, 2013]
ISO concertmaster Zach de Pue led the orchestra in its 18th classical
concert with an all-string program containing a variety of works, periods and
styles.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - May. 13, 2013]
Using video generated sets, Indianapolis Opera mounted the
biggest handiwork of its season with its second production of Wagner's Der fliegende Höllander (The Flying Dutchman).
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - May. 9, 2013]
The Stanford U.
based string quartet captivated with contemporary klezmer music by Osvaldo
Golijov. Too bad this didn't apply to their entire program.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 29, 2013]
The 64-year-old diva showed a packed Palladium that she
still has the voice and the lungs to carry the house away with her in a program
touching many styles.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 24, 2013]
The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in
collaboration with the Ronen Chamber Ensemble featured the 1998 fourth-place
laureate in a concert mixing the new and the familiar.
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Reviews
By Chantal Incandela
[Classical Music - Apr. 23, 2013]
Barber's Adagio for Strings and Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' were excellent in the ICO's first concert at the Schrott Center; Copland's Concerto for Clarinet wasn't.
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Reviews
By Chantal Incandela
[Classical Music - Apr. 23, 2013]
The Indianapolis Saxophone Quartet, soprano Kathleen Hacker and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crabiel highlighted a concert of chamber pieces at Butler.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 22, 2013]
Following a week of sterling piano music making by five
American Pianists Association finalists, Sean Chen was chosen as the 2013 APA Classical Fellow.
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Features
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 17, 2013]
The five finalists for the APA's top classical honor, said to afford "profound early career assistance" (New York Times), are facing off this week in a series of concerts concluding Saturday.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 13, 2013]
Guest pianist Dejan Lazić reconstructed the Brahms
Violin Concerto as a piano concerto and played it for a large Friday ISO
audience.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 11, 2013]
Ensemble Music hosted the Brentano String Quartet playing
two works by Beethoven and a Fantasia selection by Henry Purcell.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Apr. 6, 2013]
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra music director Krzysztof
Urbański redeemed himself with a superlative account of Mussorgsky/Ravel's
Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Reviews
By Tom Aldridge
[Classical Music - Mar. 23, 2013]
In its 14th classical-concert weekend, our ISO music
director programmed two repertoire war horses followed by the one even more
popular "war elephant."
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