When it comes to art, there is little less understood than that which is well-ingrained in popular imagination. The prevalence of a piece in the mind of a passerby may lead to awareness, and awareness to comfort, but neither necessitates true knowledge. At the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” this fact was shown brilliantly in a night that reinvigorated melodies most people have heard their entire lives.

A collection of four violin concertos, the International Movie Database (IMDB) notes that this eighteenth-century masterpiece has been used in hundreds of films. Now, on its 300-year anniversary, these well-known tunes were displayed wonderfully in a historically informed performance by Grammy-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell and

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