MUSIC REVIEW: IU CONCERT ORCHESTRA, EFFRON, IOANNIDES
Soloist, orchestra and conductor make a complete package By Peter Jacobi An orchestra playing tremendously well, a fascinating Japanese work and a Beethoven piano concerto given an elegant and...
View ArticleMUSIC REVIEW: IU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND DAVID NEELY
Alum Neely ably leads Symphony Orchestra By Peter Jacobi For David Neely, it was a return to where he studied piano and conducting. Now the director of orchestral activities at the University of Kansas...
View ArticleMusic review: Chamber Orchestra and Fleezanis
Conductor-less orchestra delights Auer audience By Peter Jacobi The format was different for the Indiana University Chamber Orchestra on Wednesday evening in Auer Hall. For a program of 18th, 19th...
View ArticleMUSIC REVIEW: IU CONCERT ORCHESTRA, GERSHWIN, BERNSTEIN
Concert’s music enjoyed by audience, performers By Peter Jacobi By the time Wednesday evening that the Indiana University Concert Orchestra got into Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West...
View ArticleREVIEW: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
By Peter Jacobi Last April, the Indianapolis Symphony and its gifted music director, Krzysztof Urbanski, paid us a visit to help mark the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” with an...
View ArticleMUSIC REVIEW: Summer Philharmonic
Informal fun concert earns standing ovation By Peter Jacobi Even the trappings differed from the usual orchestral concert in the Musical Arts Center on Saturday evening. The musicians in the Summer...
View ArticleDavid Neely scores high marks with University Orchestra
Guest conductor Neely scores high marks again with University Orchestra By Peter Jacobi It’s been a quick turn-around for guest conductor David Neely. In mid-October, he was here to lead the Indiana...
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Jacobs ensembles collaborate for symphony performance
Megan Wilhelm, second-year master’s student in the Jacobs School of Music, practices her solo during rehearsal for “Vaughan Williams: ‘A Sea Symphony.'” The oratorio Chorus and Concert Orchestra will...
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Orchestral conducting student Danko Drusko produces Mahler’s Symphony No. 2...
Danko Drusko, orchestral conducting student at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has partnered with several organizations to produce Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) as a...
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Caleb Young to be Assistant Conductor for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Philharmonic to welcome new assistant conductor Keiara Carr | The Journal Gazette The Fort Wayne Philharmonic will welcome a new assistant conductor in October, the organization announced Wednesday....
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