Adelaide Festival Theatre Friday 3 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm) Saturday 4 October at 6:30pm (Finish approx. 8:30pm)
Gypsy flavours and Russian fire blend together in this rich and exciting program of popular masterpieces, focussing on the rapturous melodies of Sergei Rachmaninov. Like Marilyn Monroe in Seven Year Itch, music-lovers proclaim on hearing the Second Piano Concerto, “Every time I hear it, I go to pieces”. His Capriccio on Gypsy Themes is a sumptuous evocation of the moody and brash characters of “Bohemian” folk music. Prokofiev wrote his Russian Overture to celebrate his return from exile in 1936, and it’s a bona fide ripsnorter: pure music for pleasure, a piece of the brightest poster art, intended by the composer to take its place alongside Tchaikovsky’s “1812” and other “lollipops”. This concert is sure to send you home with a smile on your face!
Join us one hour prior for an informative, free pre-concert talk.
Adelaide Festival Theatre Thursday 9 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm) Friday 10 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
DukeEllington stands as one of the musical giants of the 20 th Century, a musician who created many of the classics of the jazz repertoire, and confidently blended jazz with the classical tradition to give it new energy and inspiration. Australia’s jazz legends James Morrison and Joe Chindamo join the ASO to present the quintessential celebration of the music of the one and only Duke, with specially-commissioned arrangements of evergreen favourites and a selection of Ellington’s own orchestral music.
Adelaide Festival Theatre Friday 17 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm) Saturday 18 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
Following three sold out nights in 2006, the highly innovative ASO Plays Pink Floyd returns with a brand new production which revisits the glory of the original but features more new songs. Built on the ASO’s highly successful seasons of Zeppelin Flies Again and ASO Plays Queen, the concert will combine the full power of the ASO with rock musicians and singers to perform Floyd classics including Another Brick in the Wall, Comfortably Numb, Learning to Fly and Wish You Were Here on stage at the Festival Theatre. Make no excuses… don’t miss this concert.
Supported by Boileau Business Solutions
Adelaide Festival Theatre Friday 24 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm) Saturday 25 October at 6:30pm (Finish approx. 8:30pm)
For more than thirty years, Philip Glass has been hailed as one of music’s most original and creative forces and his Violin Concerto stands as his most well-loved, lyrical work. Young Australian saxophonist, Amy Dickson, (now living in London) is emerging as one of the world’s leading soloists and has worked with Philip Glass in preparing this rapturous new version of his 20 th Century classic. The ebullience of Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony has made it a perennial concert favourite, its good-natured melodic richness the fruit of a great composer feeling good about himself and the world in general. Opening the concert is the velvet romanticism of Ernest Chausson, evoking the legendary world of King Arthur in his delightful symphonic poem, Viviane. Dynamic Dutch conductor, Otto Tausk, will lead the ASO through a concert of rich sensual sonorities.
Join us one hour prior for an informative, free pre-concert talk.
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