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Event
Sculthorpe, Orff, and Strauss : Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala
- Date: Thursday, 4 July 2024 to Saturday, 6 July 2024, 7:30pm Thu & Fri, 2pm Sat
- Venue: Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne — 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: Standard $82-$142; Concession $77-$137; Mob Tix $25; Child $20 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9929 9600
Event Details
Under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, this year’s Winter Gala brings together a stellar ensemble of vocal soloists and the MSO Chorus for the thundering Carmina Burana. Queensland’s 2023 Australian of the Year – the extraordinary yidaki (didgeridoo) virtuoso William Barton – performs Peter Sculthorpe's evocative Earth Cry.
- The steamy Spanish legend of Don Juan has seduced many an artist and composer since the renaissance. Rumour has it that the content of this orchestral tone poem – as disapproving letters to Strauss from his father would suggest – also draws on insight from the composer’s lived experience of scandalous behaviour.
- Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe is known for his evocative musical exploration of remote Australian landscapes. Inspired by songlines of Ubirr in Kakadu National Park, this performance of Earth Cry features William Barton.
- Orff’s epic Carmina Burana flips the traditional idea of a cantata. Usually a religious work for instrumental ensemble, choir, and soloists, instead the work uses medieval secular (and sometimes scandalous) poetry as its basis to explore the age-old vices of life, love, and fortune.
Featured non-Australian music: Orff - Carmina Burana; R. Strauss - Don Juan
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Earth cry : full orchestra (1986) by Peter Sculthorpe — performed by Jaime Martin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and William Barton |
Featured artists
- Performer Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus
- Conductor Warren Trevelyan-Jones
- Performer Young Voices of Melbourne
- Performer William Barton
- Performer Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Jaime Martin
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