“If you had to slap a title on the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming 85th season, it’d be The Young and the Restless,” writes Michael Anthony Adams in Sunday’s (2/16) Indianapolis Star. “Throughout the 2014-15 season, the Hilbert Circle Theater will host new talents from around the world, many of whom will be taking the stage at the ISO for the very first time.… Krzysztof Urbanski, the ISO’s 32-year-old music director … [will lead] Mahler’s Fifth, an all-Russian festival concluding with Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony, and Beethoven’s Ninth with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir.” Of the guest artists, “Arabella Steinbacher, 32, will make her ISO debut as the principal violinist in Hector Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’ in May 2015. Cristian Macelaru, 33, associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will travel to Indianapolis for the first time to direct Stravinsky’s ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ (Kurt Vonnegut provided the libretto) in May 2015.… British conductor Matthew Halls, 37, will make his ISO debut in October 2014 directing Mozart’s ‘Requiem.’ ” Also scheduled to perform are pianist Alice Sara Ott, 26, violinist Augustin Hadelich, 29, cellist/conductor Han-Na Chang, 32, and conductor Christopher Altstaedt, 34. Pops programming will include “Music of the Mad Men Era,” “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel,” and a Beatles tribute.
Posted February 20, 2014
