Hollywood Songbook

Musica Viva Australia: Hollywood Songbook

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour. Trip the light fantastic from Berlin to Hollywood, via a Shakespearean tragedy, a Broadway musical and a Wild West rodeo in this sonic documentary of turbulent times.

The University of Melbourne: Draevon – Between Light and Darkness

Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Transfigured String Trio presents Russian composer Alfred Schnitkke’s extraordinary dark and compelling string trio in its original format composed in 1985 just prior to him suffering a severe stroke that led into a coma. After being declared clinically dead on several occasions, he went on to survive and continued composing…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: Egmont / Prometheus

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
An incredibly ambitious opening night program performed by Coady Green, Ian Munro, Justin Kenealy, Paul English, Antoinette Halloran, and the Divisi Chamber Singers. Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus Opus 43, for piano four hands (arr. Carl Czerny) Coady Green, Ian Munro Beethoven: Egmont Opus 84, for narrator, two…

Australian Chamber Orchestra: An Evening with the ACO Collective Quartet

The Art House 19-21 Margaret Street, Wyong, NSW, Australia
Featuring classical masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Dvořák, alongside contemporary works by Philip Glass and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with delightfully informative introductions to the music. Acclaimed for the energy and dynamism of their performances, the ACO Collective Quartet is made up of graduates from the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s renowned Emerging…
The Art Of

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: The Art Of

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
An inspiring and refreshing collaboration between QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the ARIA award-winning pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata This concert brings QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the inimitable pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata in a program that celebrates tradition and reimagines it. Hear…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: The Juliet Letters

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Juliet Letters is a studio album by the British singer and songwriter Elvis Costello and British string quartet Brodsky Quartet released in 1993. Costello described the album as “a song sequence for string quartet and voice… It’s a little bit different. It’s not a rock opera. It’s a whole…

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Northern Lights

Richard Gill Auditorium Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
WAAPA’s String Camerata and the Darlington Quartet present Holberg Suite Op.WAAPA’s String Camerata and the Darlington Quartet present Holberg Suite Op.40, Edvard Grieg’s joyous 200th birthday gift to the celebrated Norwegian writer, philosopher and playwright, Ludvig Holberg. It’s a sparkling reimaging of the Baroque music that Holberg would have heard…

Wollongong Art Gallery: The Chameleon

Wollongong Art Gallery 46 Burelli St, Wollongong NSW 2500, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Emerging concert artist Anna Chung is a passionate young Australian clarinettist who has crafted a terrific program that journeys across centuries of music. The clarinet's chameleon-like character is attributed to the incredible range of colours and emotions this instrument can create. Anna has selected works that showcase this diversity, including…
Hollywood Songbook

Musica Viva Australia: Hollywood Songbook

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour. Trip the light fantastic from Berlin to Hollywood, via a Shakespearean tragedy, a Broadway musical and a Wild West rodeo in this sonic documentary of turbulent times.

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