Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra to play free concerts in September

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra (ICO) is bringing music back to Indianapolis Parks this September.

The free concerts, which are in partnership with Indy Parks with support from The National Bank of Indianapolis and The Penrod Society, will take place in Garfield Park on Sept. 4, in Riverside Park on Sept. 5 and Holliday Park on Sept. 6. The ICO will perform a variety of classical favorites, Broadway hits and performances from The Global Prep Academy Bilingual Choir and Indianapolis Suzuki Academy.

The first concert, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at the MacAllister Amphitheatre at Garfield Park, will also be ICO’s first of the year. Students from the Indianapolis Suzuki Academy will join the orchestra onstage to perform works by Chevalier, Rossini and Schubert as well as Cole Porter (“Night and Day”) and Henry Mancini (“The Pink Panther”). The concert will also include sections from Bernstein’s West Side Story and a Broadway medley entitled “Curtain Up!”

The next concert, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 5 at Riverside Park, will include the same repertoire with the addition of Filho’s Cidade Maravilhosa with students from Global Prep Academy. In celebration of Brazil’s independence in September, the ICO will also perform Barroso’s “Brazil.”

Lastly, the concert on Sept. 6, which takes place at 7 p.m. at Holliday Park, will see the ICO joined by the Indianapolis Suzuki Academy students. Audience members will also be treated to a “yoga break” during the performance led by Invoke Yoga to set to Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”

This concert will also include the aforementioned works by Rossini and Schubert, tributes to Cole Porter and Henry Mancini, selections from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and “Curtain Up” — which celebrates Broadway hits such as “There’s No Business like Show Business,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”

Each of the concerts is free to attend and reservations can be made at icomusic.org for weather updates. More information can be found on ICO social media pages, website or by 317-940-9607.

Contact Indianapolis Recorder Arts & Culture Reporter Chloe McGowan at 317-762-8748. Follow her on X @chloe_mcgvowanxx.