Date
Sunday 24 August
Time
2.00pm
Venue
Auditorium
The Memo
Tickets
Adult $22
Concession $18
Songmakers Australia
Unique in the musical landscape of Australia, Songmakers Australia brings together some of the country’s leading singers and instrumentalists in a diverse repertoire comprising some of the pinnacles of chamber music.
Three great singers are heard as soloists and in combination, alongside the wonderful pianist Andrea Katz, in repertoire that encompasses all the joyous variety of vocal art from the past three centuries.
The program includes songs by Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Grainger, Quilter and Calvin Bowman’s witty new song cycle You might as well live, based on poems by Dorothy Parker.
Date
Sunday 31 August
Time
2.00pm
Venue
Red Earth Theatre
Mooroolbark Community Centre
Tickets
All Tix $10
Victorian Concert Orchestra
For nearly 100 years this iconic 50 piece orchestra has become renowned for an ever-changing program that ranges from the classics – Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky - through Operetta, Musical Theatre – from Gilbert & Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber – and contemporary composers such as John Williams (Star Wars) and Peter Allen.
Directed by acclaimed ABC Orchestra conductor, Gerald Keuneman, whose credits include Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Anthony Warlow, and Nick Cave it promises to be a highly professional performance.
Date
Sunday 14 September
Time
2.00pm
Venue
Auditorium
The Memo
Tickets
Adult $34
Concession $30
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
JS Bach Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor BWV 1003: Andante
JS Bach Concerto for Violin in A minor BWV 1041
Purcell arr Stokowski Dido and Aeneas: Dido’s Lament (arr full strings)
Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
Grieg Suite From Holberg’s Time
Paul Stanhope Elegies and Dances*
JS Bach arr Bachrich Suite for Strings: Adagio
*Victorian premiere season
MCO presents an emotionally-charged homage to the two great moods of the string orchestra: the sparkling drive of the dance, and the poignancy of the elegy. Stirring Bachrich and Stokowski arrangements of famous Baroque adagios will take your breath away. On the dance card are Bartók’s rustic regionalism and Grieg’s enduring tribute to the courtly manners of the eighteenth century.
With over 250 concerto appearances to his credit, MCO Artistic Director William Hennessy is one of Australia’s best-loved soloists and his performance of Bach’s Concerto in A minor in this program is an event not to be missed.
