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    • Ode To Joy

    Willoughby Symphony: Ode To Joy

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music of all time. For over 200 years this monumental symphony has captivated listeners from the concert hall to the cinema, especially the triumphant ‘Ode to Joy’ of the finale, sung by glorious massed choir. Experience Beethoven’s astonishing masterpiece in…
    Press Play

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Press Play

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Power up for a journey through gaming’s greatest soundtracks with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, from 8-bit pioneers to modern-day epic worlds. Video game music has evolved from the nostalgic beeps and boops of the 80s to some of the most cinematic and powerful soundtracks of today. As culturally significant as…
    How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

    Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, VIC
    A winner with audiences and critics alike, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is a captivating and original story that combines humor, fire-breathing action and epic adventure! Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition when he befriends one of his deadliest foes – a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together, these…

    QPAC: Electric Fields With the Queensland Symphony Orchestra

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Renowned for their captivating fusion of vibrant traditional culture with pop, soul and electronica, Electric Fields’ original compositions and contemporised arrangements of traditional inma bring breathtaking moments of beauty and power to audiences across Australia, and around the world. With their evocative works reimagined for orchestra by composer Alex Turley…
    Javier Perianes performs Saint-Saëns

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Javier Perianes performs Saint-Saëns

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    With its evocation of frogs and crickets croaking by the Nile and drawing upon the sounds of Nubian folk song, Saint-Saëns conjures a vibrant and romantic memory of Egypt. Acclaimed pianist Perianes brings each scene to life in dazzling colour. The William Tell Overture is one of the most thrilling ever written.…
    Ode To Joy

    Willoughby Symphony: Ode To Joy

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music of all time. For over 200 years this monumental symphony has captivated listeners from the concert hall to the cinema, especially the triumphant ‘Ode to Joy’ of the finale, sung by glorious massed choir. Experience Beethoven’s astonishing masterpiece in…

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Rapture

    Government House Ballroom, Perth 13 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Charm and innovation collide in Brahms’ String Sextet No.2. The grand orchestral experience is distilled to a single ground-breaking movement in Schoenberg’s boundary-pushing First Chamber Symphony. A suite of dramatic and vivid string quartets showcases the creative talents of Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.

    Corpus Medicorum: Atmosphere – Concert #3

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Ethereal French melodies to elevate your soul and senses. This is truly music of the ethereal realm. A French program featuring master violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto with Chausson’s Poeme and Ravel’s Tzigane is the central atmospheric theme. Beginning with Debussy’s La Mer and concludes with Ravel’s La Valse. An extraordinary musical…

    Penrith Symphony Orchestra: Classical Masterpieces – Beethoven & Bruch

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    The heroic and expressive Egmont Overture opens a program of refined classics featuring Beethoven’s second symphony, its music bursting with restless energy and angst as the composer grappled with his ever-increasing deafness. Autumnal and lushly romantic, Bruch’s double concerto evokes a warm nostalgia, transporting listeners on a momentary 19th Century Idyll.
    Editor's Choice Circa & The Art of Fugue

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Circa & The Art of Fugue

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following their celebrations of the Italian and Spanish Baroque, Yaron Lifschitz’s circus troupe Circa and the ABO now join forces for JS Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Considered by many to be the composer’s last work, this compendium of contrapuntal writing will be brought to life in a thrilling display…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Open Rehearsal with Shiyeon Sung

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Take a peek behind the scenes at an open rehearsal with conductor Shiyeon Sung. Join us for an hour in some of the best seats in the house as Shiyeon and the musicians of the MSO rehearse their program. You'll be able to eavesdrop on the dialogue between conductor and…
    Editor's Choice Circa & The Art of Fugue

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Circa & The Art of Fugue

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Following their celebrations of the Italian and Spanish Baroque, Yaron Lifschitz’s circus troupe Circa and the ABO now join forces for JS Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Considered by many to be the composer’s last work, this compendium of contrapuntal writing will be brought to life in a thrilling display…

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