CONCERT 1 EVENT

19th May

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996)

Atoms of Silence

Andrián Pertout (1963 – )
(Commissioned by Julian Burnside AO QC)
Australian work – world premiere performance

Symphony No. 8 in D Minor

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872- 1958) (ed. David Lloyd Jones)

CONCERT 2 EVENT
~Chamber Music Concert~

August 11th

“A conversation between friends.”

Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973)

Sextet

Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)

L’Heure du Berger

Jean Françaix (1912-1997)

Sonata for clarinet, flute and piano

Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938)

Opus Number Zoo

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

CONCERT 3 WEEKEND

Sir Arnold Bax Music Festival
~Edition No. 1~

August 31 – September 1st.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

Concert 1. Pro-Musica Orchestra (cond. John Ferguson)

Mediterranean

King Arthur Suite – E. Elgar

Concert 2. ADO Chamber Soloists

An Elegaic Trio

Divertimenti – F. Bridge

Pastorale et Arlequinade – E. Goosens

Clarinet Sonata in D Major (clar. Anne Brisk)

Concert 3. Australian Discovery Orchestra

Tintagel

Lament (For Catherine, aged 9 “Lusitania” 1915) – F. Bridge

From Dusk ‘Till Dawn

Australian premiere performance of Bax’s extraordinary 1917 ballet (originally known as Between Twelve and Three). The story is about three ornaments (a figure in Dresden porcelain, a clown and a Russian ballerina) in a window sill on a Summer night who suddenly come to life at the stroke of midnight, only to return to being inanimate with the sunrise.  This is the first peformance anywhere in the world since 1982, with the composer’s manuscript only being rediscovered in 1981.

CONCERT 4 SPECIAL EVENT

October 27th

Details to be announced soon

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine”

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

(Students of Daphne Proietto from Keys of Life perform with the ADO)

Photo ©Alex Coppel/Herald Sun

featuring the music of R. Vaughan Williams, D. Shostakovich, G. Bizet, P. Grainger and M. Clementi

including

The Lark Ascending

Soloist: Marianne Rothschild

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872- 1958)