Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 8:00 pm
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center - Ruth Lilly Performance Hall
University of Indianapolis
1400 E. Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227

Kirk Trevor, conductor 

The ICO and the University of Indianapolis Music Department join in collaboration to present Beethoven's inspiring masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony.  This true icon of Western music will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9.  This tour de force is famous for its inclusion of Friedrich Schiller's poem An die Freude ("Ode to Joy").  University of Indianapolis chorus and faculty soloists Kathleen Hacker, soprano; Mitzi Westra, mezzo-soprano; and Michael Sylvester, tenor, along with guest artist Thomas Scurich, baritone; will join Kirk Trevor and the ICO to present this timeless work.