Symphony Series

Tragedy to Triumph

  • Where Adelaide Town Hall
  • Price This is a free event
Tragedy to Triumph

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  • Approx. 2 hours 5 minutes Duration* Due to the nature of live music, the duration listed is an estimate only.
  • 20 minutes Interval
  • Horn Solo Instrument
  • Adelaide Town Hall Location

Music to illuminate the darkness.

If a searing personal experience can be transformed into an extraordinary work of art, the result is Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, created in the shadow of Stalin’s Russia. This is powerful, raw, confessional music. Lili Bolanger’s Of a Sad Evening draws the audience into a dark, dramatic sound world of melancholy and introspection, before building to an impassioned conclusion. Adelaide’s own Andrew Bain, now Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, returns home for the World Premiere of a concerto written for him by one of Australia’s leading contemporary composers.


Classical Conversations

Join us at the Meeting Hall (located just behind Adelaide Town Hall) one hour before the concert for our free Classical Conversations and hear from composer Paul Dean and conductor and music-educator Graham Abbott discussing Paul’s new commission.

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Program to include

  • Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste (Of a Sad Evening)
  • Paul Dean Concerto for Horn and orchestra
  • Shostakovich Symphony No.10
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