SATURDAY MARCH 27th
‘West Side Story’
Guest Artist – Tristram Williams | Trumpet

Beethoven	Egmont Overture
Arnold	English Dances Op.33
Lovelock	Trumpet Concerto
Bizet	Carmen Fantasy for Trumpet
Bernstein	Symphonic Pictures from West Side Story

The opening concert of this series offers a wonderfully varied program encompassing a number of styles and historical periods. From Beethoven’s impressively dramatic Egmont Overture to Bizet’s lustrous Carmen Fantasy, to the archetypically American sounds of Bernstein’s West-Side Story – this concert has a distinctly theatrical tone.

SATURDAY JUNE 26th
‘Love Beethoven?’
Guest Artist – Violin | Natsuko Yoshimoto

Beethoven	Violin Concerto in D
Grainger	Mock Morris and Molly on the Shore
Holst	Ballet from the Perfect Fool
Wagner	Overture to Rienzi

The excitement and sense of invention that informs the orchestration of Grainger and Holst, and the youthful Romantic sweep of Wagner’s overture to his early opera, Rienzi, are certain to be enjoyed as attractive works in their own right. However the pure beauty, majesty and compositional perfection of Beethoven’s violin concerto, a work that easily stands amongst the greatest of all concertos ever written, occupies a rarefied musical and spiritual level that is completely its own.

*This concert was repeated on Sunday June 27th at 2.30 pm at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11th
‘Rhapsodies’
Guest Artist – Amir Farid | Piano

Arnold	The Sound Barrier
Vaughan Williams	Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue
Prokofiev	Piano Concerto No.1
Copland	Appalachian Spring

The rhapsodical offerings of this concert are highly representative of twentieth-century mainstream American and English music. Gershwin and Copland typify the energy and vigour of the New World, whilst Vaughan-Williams and Arnold encompass the more far-sighted cultural vision of the Old, notwithstanding Arnold’s reference to modernism and innovation. These works display a distinctiveness of national styles that provides excellent points of comparison between the two cultures. Meanwhile, Prokofiev’s first piano concerto, more than ably carries the banner of the third great powerhouse of twentieth century music – Russia.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 4th
‘From Bach to Tchaikovsky’
Guest Artist – Jonathon Bam | Baritone

Strauss	Die Fledermaus Overture
JS Bach	Cantata BWV 82: ‘Ich Habe Genug’
Tchaikovsky	Symphony No.5

The contrast between the lightness and humour of Johann Strauss’ music and the devotional depth of Bach’s cantata provides an ideal foil to the centrepiece of the final concert of the series, Tchaikovsky’s mighty 5th Symphony. This is a work that is completely engrossing in a way that only the great symphonic works can be. It takes the listener on a journey that encompasses the full gamut of human emotion.