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Lunchtime Concert - American Flair
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
A staple of the twentieth-century piccolo repertoire, Lowell Liebermann’s entry into the genre is an exquisite piece of modern music with a wide array of influences and an accessible harmonic style. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story synthesize everything great about the original score – jazzy licks, Latin dance rhythms, complex modern harmonies, and operatic melodies.
Lunchtime Concert - Cities of Music
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Join Heidi von Bernewitz and Rob Nairn for viola and bass duos, featuring the music of Beethoven and his circle, together with extraordinary new music from Australia and the US.
Lunchtime Concert - Exquisite Strings
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Gustav Holst’s C Major Suite is a light-hearted piece composed for his students in the St Paul’s Girls’ School. Carulli’s Guitar Concerto in E Minor is a milestone of the repertoire and an exceptionally balanced and refined work of the Classical period. From the elegiac opening to the heroic final movement, Nielsen’s Little Suite for Strings is a great collection of human emotions.
Evening Concert - Water Music
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021, 6:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Like music, water is essential for life! It purifies, clarifies, reflects and symbolises so many things in our lives. And for this Lunchtime concert at least, we give you a slightly different slant to the idea of a ‘liquid lunch’!
Lunchtime Concert - Transcendent Beauty
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Fanny Hensel has found a place alongside the nineteenth century’s most innovative and relevant lieder composers, side-by-side with giants such as Robert Schumann and her own brother Felix Mendelssohn. These musical settings of colossal figures of German romantic poetry like Eichendorff, Heine, Geibel and Goethe explore the feelings of melancholy, unrequited love and the transcendental beauty of nature.
Evening Concert - Masterpieces
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021, 6:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Renowned pianist Konstantin Shamray presents an evening of pianistic masterpieces. At the centrepiece of a prodigious program is Franz Liszt’s impassioned Piano Sonata in B Minor. Now a cornerstone of the repertoire, the work was initially viewed with suspicion by Liszt’s contemporaries – its innovation and sheer virtuosity making it too ahead of its time!
Mamma Mia!
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021, 7:30 pm
- Location: Scott Theatre
On a small Greek island, Sophie dreams of a perfect wedding — one which includes her father walking her down the aisle. But Sophie doesn’t know who he is!
