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MSO Live Music Marathon

Event

MSO Live Music Marathon

  • Date: Monday, 8 June 2020, from 2pm AEST
  • Venue: Live streaming event (online only) — National, Australia

Event Details

Join the MSO on the Queen’s Birthday holiday for a six-hour interactive online music marathon celebrating the intrinsic relationship between nature, sound and humanity.

The marathon will feature live and pre-filmed orchestral and ensemble performances of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Vaughan Williams as well as contemporary compositions, inspired by both nature and the nature of humanity. We also feature conversations with MSO musicians and special guests, deconstructing Beethoven works in the year of his 250th birthday and contextualising his works for today’s world.

Highlights include the recent world premiere collaboration of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Circa Contemporary Circus; Beethoven’s 7th Symphony; Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending (arranged for string sextet, featuring concertmaster Dale Barltrop), Peter Sculthorpe’s String Quartet No.18, Vivaldi’s 'Winter' from The Four Seasons featuring MSO violinist Anne-Marie Johnson and Dutala, star-filled sky by MSO’s Composer in Residence Deborah Cheetham AO.

You will be invited to add a visual dimension to the event, by sharing personal imagery inspired by nature and community as a visual companion to a selection of classical works.

The marathon will also celebrate the return of the MSO musicians as we prepare for a program of exciting new digital concerts, conversation and interactions.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website

Featured Australian Works

Digital sheet music sample And no birds sing (quintets: flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin) (1986) by Brenton Broadstock
Dutala, star filled sky : SATB choir with orchestra (2020) by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon
String quartet No. 18 : string quartet (2010) by Peter Sculthorpe

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