hello councillors!
zeming wishes to organise concert outings! (:
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1) Gala: Gennady Rozhdestvensky (SSO)

DATE
16 Oct 2009
Fri, 7.30pm

Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Sasha Rozhdestvensky, violin
Viktoria Postnikova, piano

BEETHOVEN
MENDELSSOHN
BRAHMS Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b (14’)
Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano and Strings (36’)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (39’)


Mendelssohn’s concerto for violin and piano was composed when he was just thirteen years of age, but lay sadly ignored until resurrected by Yehudi Menuhin in 1952. The evening closes with Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, one of the masterpieces of the symphonic repertoire with a gripping conclusion that has the same air of inevitability as Beethoven’s Fifth.”

Student priced tickets are $10.50, Cat 6. Not sure whether I can get a bulk student purchase of Cat 4 tickets, will buy Cat 4 if I'm allowed.

2) Beethoven Festival: In Good Company (SSO)

DATE
4 Dec 2009
Fri, 7.30pm

Lan Shui, conductor
Mari Kodama, piano


BEETHOVEN
BEETHOVEN
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 (26’)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (34’) Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (36’)
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (36’)



Pianist Mari Kodama – heralded for her profound musicality and articulate virtuosity – joins forces with the SSO in Beethoven’s poetic Fourth Concerto. Two sunny symphonies flank the programme: the Seventh – a celebratory work brimming with beauty and energy – and the Eighth, possibly “the sunniest, most unadulteratedly cheerful music filled with high spirits, rowdy jokes and sly pranks”.

Student priced tickets are $7.70 (!!), Cat 6. Will also try bulk buying.

3) Beethoven Festival: Pastoral Pleasures (SSO)

DATE
1 Dec 2009
Tue, 7.30pm

Lan Shui, conductor
Emily Beynon, flute


BRETT DEAN
NIELSEN
BEETHOVEN Pastoral Symphony (17’)
Flute Concerto (19’)
No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘ Pastorale’ (39’)


Nielsen’s Flute Concerto is a work bathed in shadow and emotional fragility. The concert opens with a very different Pastoral Symphony, composed in 2000 by Australian composer Brett Dean (b.1961), using a wide range of modern compositional techniques. It “is about glorious birdsong, the threat that it faces, and the soulless noise that we’re left with when they’re all gone".

Student priced tickets are $7.70 (!!), Cat 6.

thanks,
kimberly.