Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
This is something your Road Trips Foodie has never seen (or, imagined). The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (obviously, one of a kind worldwide) makes instruments and music from fresh vegetables—a pepper trumpet, a leek violin—and does it right in front of a live audience. The sounds that result are described as contemporary, jazzy and new.
Based in Vienna, Austria, and founded in 1998, the 12-member Vegetable Orchestra knows no musical boundaries. The exploration and refinement of performable vegetable music is the orchestra’s aesthetic quest. Critics rave: “The Vegetable Orchestra turns music into something you can see, taste and smell . . . a sensory experience . . . liberating.”
Should you choose to attend this concert at 7 p.m. November 6, 2010, in the Tobias Theater of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, be sure to bring a gently used cookbook. There’ll be a swap, and you can take a different tome home. Concert tickets are $18.