Australian Discovery Orchestra

A favourite of orchestras everywhere in the world, the concert begins with a remarkable and highly effective arrangement for chamber orchestra of Debussy’s extraordinary orchestral masterpiece, La Mer. Debussy’s masterpiece was inspired by seascapes in painting and literature born of fond memories of the beauties of the sea Debussy retained from childhood. The concert concludes with the one-act ballet by Aaron Copland, in its orginal 13-instrument version, which made American dance history. Set in rural Pennsylvania during the 19th century, the idyllic story of newlyweds building their first farmhouse evoked a simpler time and place that appealed to a nation at war abroad.