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May 2019
2019 Event 1: Discover Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 8 in D minor
The Australian Discovery Orchestra's 2019 season kicks off with an exploration of Ralph Vaughan Williams' sublime late orchestral masterpiece, the Symphony No. 8 in D minor in the new critical edition by David Lloyd Jones.
With it's highly colouristic orchestration, it makes a perfect partner to the world premiere performance of 'Atoms of Silence' by the outstanding Australian composer, Andrián Pertout, commissioned by Julian Burnside AO QC. ADO principal conductor, Kevin Purcell, conducts.
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2019 Event 2: ADO Musicians Perform 20th-Century Chamber Music
Principal wind players from the ADO and invited guests invite you to an afternoon concert of entrancing and favourite chamber pieces as selected by the players. All composed in the 20th-Century, the concert is a perfect introduction to the vast richness of wind chamber music repertoire.
The concert will undoubtedly delight, if not surprise, audience members if only to hear orchestral musicians imitating animal noises whilst they are performing in one of the concert items!
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2019 Event 3: The Sir Arnold Bax Music Festival
The inaugural Sir Arnold Bax Music Festival designed by ADO Principal Conductor, Kevin Purcell, reflects the ongoing renaissance of the music of Arnold Bax (1883-1953) that began with the Lyrita record label recordings in the early 1970s of which Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 were conducted by Maestro Purcell's British conducting teacher, the late Myer Fredman. Having passed on his intimate knowledge of Bax's orchestral output, Purcell has created a biennial festival to explore every aspect of this largely forgotten titan of 20th-Century British music in special curated concert performances.
The inaugural Festival (Aug.31 - Sept. 1) will feature two orchestral works composed in 1917 - the incredible tone-poem 'Tintagel' and the Australian premiere of the ballet suite 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn' - a second concert of some of Bax's little-known chamber music; a new documentary film examing the reasons for the unjustified and inexplicable neglect of Bax's orchestral works in orchestral concert programming to the present-day, and other still to be announced ancillary events.
Find out more »October 2019
2019 Event 4: Keys of Life (Special Event)
Featured on the Australian edition of 60 Minutes in 2016, Daphne Prioetto is a remarkable woman teaching the piano to children with autism in Melbourne, Australia. Focusing on the development of motor skills and aural acuity, she has achieved truly astounding outcomes with the children she has taught, and far beyond the expectations of what was previously assumed to be possible for children with this disability.
Founded on establishing a rapport not only with the child but with the family as well as means to long-term musical development and success, Daphne's work is defined by realising the potential in all children to experience and explore music-making irrespective of the challenges they may face in day-to-day living. Watching Daphne's students perform in concert is a testament to the finest possibilities of the human spirit. Whatever you have planned on this day, cancel it, and experience an event to make your heart soar.
In addition to Daphne's Keys of Life students, ADO Principal Violin, Marianne Rothschild performs Vaughan Williams' soaringly beautiful solo in 'The Lark Ascending' followed by two, small, Delius minatures for chamber orchestra. ADO Principal Conductor, Kevin Purcell directs.
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