Live the music - Queensland Symphony Orchestra

44 Regional
Regional 45
GOld COAST
GoLD CoaST 1 GoLD CoaST 2 GoLD CoaST 3
TooWooMBa
CaLoUnDRa
RuSSiAN
FAvOuRiTES
7pm, Friday 11 may 2012
Arts Centre Gold Coast
CONduCTOR
Valery Polyansky
PiANO
Tatiana Polyanskaya
a program no romantic should miss!
Shakespeare’s play takes almost three
hours but in twenty minutes Tchaikovsky
distilled the drama and emotion in his
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy overture as no
other composer ever could. Tchaikovsky’s
Polish Symphony was named for the
spectacular polonaise in the finale, but
this five-movement work is brimming
with other wonderful melodies and great
musical ideas from first note to last and
everyone who hears it for the first time
will want to hear it more often. Tatiana
Polyanskaya spices this Russian spectacular
with arensky’s colourful Fanstasia on
Themes by Ryabinin.
CROSSBOWS
10-13 may 2012
Crossbows is a collaboration
of QSo, aBC and Queensland
Conservatorium.
over thirty free and ticketed
events across Brisbane’s South
Bank precinct
Crossbows celebrates the
excellence and inventiveness
of music for small ensembles
in Queensland’s musical
ecosystem. Crossing the
familiar with the unfamiliar,
heritage with the future, it
will feature an amazing array
of established and emerging
ensembles in classical music,
jazz, world, rock and pop.
For detailed program, visit:
griffith.edu.au
ROmANCE
ANd PASSiON
7pm, Friday 22 June 2012
Arts Centre Gold Coast
CONduCTOR
eivind aadland
PRESENTER
Guy noble
SOPRANO
Milica Ilic
TENOR
Kang Wang
viOliN
Warwick adeney
What is this thing called love? Whatever it
is, it certainly makes the world, and music,
go round. Love and romance have been
the most powerful source of inspiration
to composers of all ages even Beethoven
(forever unlucky in love) who entrusted his
love song to a solo violin. eivind aadland,
Kang Wang, Milica Ilic and Warwick
adeney join with the QSo, spiced with
a few typically wry comments from the
permanently love-struck Guy noble, explore
some of music’s pinnacles of passion.
QSO GREAT
FAvOuRiTES
7pm, Friday 20 July 2012
Arts Centre Gold Coast
CONduCTOR/PRESENTER
Guy noble
TRumPET
Sarah Wilson
These you have loved. We’ve assembled
your favourite pieces from our Music on
Sundays programs over the years, the
melodies which may have changed your
lives and become the ones you want to
hear more and more. Swoon to the strains
of all your old favourites by composers
including Mozart, elgar and Tchaikovsky, all
packaged together with the incomparable
Guy noble hosting the event.
Buy tickets to Gold Coast Concerts
by calling 07 5588 4000.
Matthew Jones and Yoko Okayasu
TOOWOOmBA
NORdiC FANTASy
7:30pm, Wednesday 5 September 2012
Empire Theatre
CONduCTOR
eivind aadland
PRESENTER
Guy noble
viOliN
Warwick adeney
TooWooMBa
CiRCuS! CiRCuS!
7:30pm, Thursday 15 November 2012
Empire Theatre
CONduCTOR
Johannes Fritzsch
PRESENTER
Guy noble
TAP dANCER
Bill Simpson
TENOR
Kang Wang
Marvel at the majestic landscapes these
composers depicted and also at the unique
voices and colours they achieved. Sibelius,
the grand old man of Scandinavian music,
wrote monumental symphonies, often
likened to the fjords themselves. Sibelius
wrote works full of wit and humour, such
as his Humoresques for Violin and
orchestra. edvard Grieg, perhaps the most
beloved of all nordic composers, wrote
music bursting with lyrical beauty.
Today’s children are reliant on more
sophisticated forms of entertainment
than the circus, but a glance at the list
of composers featured in this wonderful
concert reveals the creative impact of the
circus and the fairground atmosphere on
musicians of highly diverse characters.
enjoy Gould's Concerto for Tap Dancer and
orchestra as well as Stravinsky's Circus
Polka written with the subtitle “composed
for a baby elephant” as a parody. Yet
not everything is bright and gaudy: nino
Rota’s score for Fellini’s classic La Strada
“The Road”, evokes a nostalgic tenderness
towards these nomadic performers.
Buy tickets to the Toowoomba concerts by calling 1300 655 299 or by going
to www.empiretheatre.com.au. These concerts are proudly co-produced by the
Empire Theatre.
CAlOuNdRA
QSO PlAyS
ElGAR
7pm, Friday 16 march 2012
The Events Centre Caloundra
CONduCTOR
nicholas Braithwaite
HARP
Marshall McGuire
Like so many of Haydn’s named
symphonies, no one quite knows how the
Symphony no.88 came to be nicknamed
The Letter V. none of this matters when
you hear the blend of wit, charm and
inventiveness of this wonderful score.
elgar’s Enigma Variations, another
quintessentially english masterpiece,
immortalized his affectionate portraits
of tweedy eccentrics but the noble strains
of the Nimrod variation are among the
most moving and beloved english music
ever composed. Marshall McGuire,
an extraordinary harp player, plays
Boieldieu's Harp Concerto with a lyricism
that will delight.
Caloundra tickets available
at 07 5491 4240.