Events

Today

    • Stravinsky & Chindamo

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky & Chindamo

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Prepare to use your imagination in weird and wonderful ways. When French composer Maurice Ravel wrote his ethereal Pavane pour une infante défunte, he’d been dreaming of the long-lost melodies that may once have inspired a young Spanish princess to dance. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring shares a French connection as it premiered…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: The Rite of Spring

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Filled with exciting layered rhythms, rapidly shifting tempos and discordant harmonies, Stravinsky used The Rite of Spring as an opportunity to push his bold musical ideas even further. It culminates with the raw and frenetic rhythms of a sacrificial dance, wild enough to send audiences into an uproar at the…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Souvenirs: Brahms & Tchaikovsky String Sextets

    Castlemaine Town Hall 25 Lyttleton St, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
    Two romantic masters, two deeply personal works, and one rarely heard configuration – this program for string sextet offers an intimate glimpse into the emotional and musical lives of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Brahms' Sextet No.1 in B-flat major, written in his late twenties, blends youthful lyricism with the emerging hallmarks…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Souvenirs: Brahms & Tchaikovsky String Sextets

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Two romantic masters, two deeply personal works, and one rarely heard configuration – this program for string sextet offers an intimate glimpse into the emotional and musical lives of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Brahms' Sextet No.1 in B-flat major, written in his late twenties, blends youthful lyricism with the emerging hallmarks…