What do these things have in common? I experienced them all on Friday with my mom. Dad spent last week in Iowa with disaster relief, so Mom decided to come for a visit. We decided to take in some activities that Dad would have vetoed if he had been here.
We started off with a trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. For the evening we had tickets to the Indianapolis Symphony performing Carmina Burana. We stopped by Au Bon Pain for dinner and ate outside on Monument Circle.
Just down the street from us was a choir performing praise and worship songs. However the other side of Monument Circle was hosting Oktoberfest. Eventually the polka music kicked up and unfortunately drowned out the choir.
We also had a little beggar join us while we ate. And we happily obliged.
Then off to the Hilbert Circle Theater for the symphony. This was the 2nd performance under the new music director at the ISO, Kryzstof Urbanski. The first half of the performance was 2 pieces just for strings. After the intermission the full orchestra backed by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianpolis Childrens Choir performed Carmina Burana. The most impressive thing to me was the fact that Urbanski conducted not only the orchestra but the choir for the entire performance without any music in front of him. For close to an hour he conducted perfectly. The performance even had some elements of humor to it. I throughly enjoyed it and I know Mom had a great time for her 1st trip to the symphony.
The only photo I could grab....right at the conclusion of the performance. The standing ovation went on and on! :)
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