“Indianapolis and Butler offer a festive lineup of concerts, markets, performances and holiday traditions throughout December.”
An autumn overture: Inside the Butler Symphony Orchestra
“As autumn settles over Butler University, the Symphony Orchestra brings warmth and harmony to campus through music, community and shared passion.”
Events calendar
“Read on for a list of free campus events that promise to broaden perspectives.”
Butler’s school of music presents holiday show, Rejoice!
Butler’s annual holiday show, Rejoice! will focus on community this year. It runs from Dec. 13-14.
Life as the Butler Symphony Orchestra concertmaster
At the beginning of this school year, my peers and I auditioned for seating placements within the orchestra, and I was appointed as concertmaster. This is the principal violin seat in the orchestra, and it has presented a whole new host of responsibilities.
Butler Opera and Orchestra April 13-15 preview
Butler University Opera Theatre and the Butler Symphony Orchestra will perform two one-act operas, Trouble in Tahiti and Suor Angelica at the Schrott.
JCA Fall Showcase features three Butler music organizations
By the time the showcase rolls around, the symphony orchestra will have only had about four weeks to prepare their music, but Soukup is not letting this stop them from putting on a great show.
Butler Symphony Orchestra shines in season debut
Ladies and gentlemen, your Butler University Symphony Orchestra! If you were in the Schrott Center on Sept. 19, you know there isn’t much more to say. In its first concert of the year, the new hall gave the ensemble a clarity and presence that it never seemed to have onstage in Clowes Memorial Hall. The…
Butler grad student to perform with Butler Symphony Orchestra
Butler graduate student Kelly Swensson is one of the country’s finest young bassoonists. Swensson, 24, will be performing a solo in Butler Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on Feb. 24. Butler bassoon professor Douglas Spaniol remembers the first time he met Swensson. Swensson was a sixth grader who had recently picked up bassoon.…
BSO paints vividly in Debussy Celebration concert
Clowes Memorial Hall was filled with the musical colors of Claude Debussy Sunday. They were heard as though through translucent clouds in the impressionist style that is synonymous with the name of this influential French composer. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth. The Butler Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Richard Auldon…