CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
What do a bugle, a bell tower, and a child prodigy violinist have in common? Find out as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra explores a series of star-crossed summons and signals under the baton of Swiss-Australian conductor Elena Schwarz – formerly a prestigious Dudamel Fellow at the LA Philharmonic.
On the program…
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Elena Schwarz conductor
Clara-Jumi Kang violin
Natalie Williams Fourth Alarm
Australian composer Natalie Williams’ music has been performed by the likes of the MSO, Atlanta Opera, Berkeley Symphony, and Musica Viva. Fourth Alarm (2013) expands a short Australian Army bugle call into a vivid work for orchestra – at once an expressive call to arms and a pressing, rhythmic warning of danger.
Martinů Symphony No.1
Destined for a musical life after being born in a Bohemian bell tower, Martinů’s magical First Symphony traverses passages of bombastic character and mysterious quietness building to an explosion of orchestral colour.
Brahms Violin Concerto
The enduring success of Brahms’s knockout Violin Concerto was in no small way influenced by a fated musical encounter with violinist Joseph Joachim when Brahms was only fourteen. Years later, they became friends, and this concerto was written especially for Joachim, who had a significant hand in its composition. International powerhouse violinist Clara-Jumi Kang puts her distinctive musical stamp on this astonishing work.
Book now for Brahms’ Violin Concerto, 7.30pm March 11 in Hamer Hall
Attend a morning show with MSO Mornings: Brahms’ Violin Concerto, 11am March 10 in Hamer Hall
Images supplied. Credit Marco Borggreve.
