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METLIFECARE UNWRAP THE MUSIC<br />
UNWRAP<br />
HANDEL’S ROYAL<br />
FIREWORKS MUSIC<br />
6.30pm, Wednesday 19 May<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Conductor Vincent Hardaker<br />
Presenter Marija Naumovska<br />
Handel Music for the Royal<br />
Fireworks<br />
The first performance of this<br />
piece brought the house down.<br />
Quite literally, as some errant<br />
fireworks set fire to nearby<br />
buildings. Discover the story<br />
behind this infamous concert with<br />
Marija Naumovska and learn more<br />
about the music Handel wrote for<br />
it. Vincent Hardaker leads the<br />
<strong>APO</strong> in a performance that will be<br />
explosive, but in a strictly musical<br />
sense only.<br />
UNWRAP<br />
HAYDN’S MILITARY<br />
SYMPHONY<br />
6.30pm, Tuesday 29 June<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Conductor/Presenter<br />
Graham Abbott<br />
Haydn Symphony No.100 ‘Military’<br />
They called Haydn ‘the Father of<br />
the Symphony’, and he’d earned<br />
the moniker. In these pieces, his<br />
inexhaustible creativity is at full<br />
stretch. But why the nickname<br />
‘Military’? Because this is the first<br />
symphony to include percussion,<br />
and Graham Abbott examines the<br />
relationship between this rather<br />
radical innovation and the wars<br />
then being fought in the wake of<br />
the French Revolution.<br />
UNWRAP<br />
TCHAIKOVSKY’S<br />
1812 OVERTURE<br />
6.30pm, Tuesday 28 September<br />
Auckland Town Hall<br />
Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto<br />
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture<br />
It’s more than just the cannons!<br />
In his biggest hit, Tchaikovsky<br />
employs the French and Russian<br />
anthems in a musical description<br />
of the Napoleonic Wars, but he<br />
ingeniously ensures that his<br />
battlefield storytelling still obeys<br />
the strict rules of musical form.<br />
And who doesn’t like a great<br />
orchestral composition where<br />
you get to blow things up in the<br />
middle of it?<br />
<strong>APO</strong>.CO.NZ 37
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