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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is a North American orchestra based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Orchestra was founded in 1930 by Ferdinand Schaefer, a local violin professor. In 1937, Fabien Sevitzky was hired as the Orchestra's first music director, as the musicians became fully professional, paid a weekly salary for a 20-week season. The orchestra quickly ascended to national prominence, appear on the NBC and Mutual Radio networks beginning in the late 1930's, and issuing a series of phonograph recordings on RCA in…
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