Outdoor symphony concert on The Entrance foreshore

Outdoor concerts and a warm summer evening go hand-in-hand perfectly and Symphony Central Coast will be presenting a free afternoon of great music at the refurbished soundshell at Memorial Park, The Entrance.

The One Land, Many Stories concert will be a celebration of Australian music and musicians, performed by some of the Coast’s most talented, on Sunday, February 26 from 4pm to 6pm.

The performance will feature Keyna Wilkins, Amanda Handel and singers from the Central

Coast Conservatorium of Music, plus songs from Elena Kats-Chernin and Peter Sculthorpe.

It will also feature the world premiere of Steven Stanke’s Rumbalara Rising, written to celebrate that mighty edifice overlooking Gosford, plus lots of other Australian songs, indigenous dancers and a Welcome to Country by Gavi Duncan.

Take your own lawn chair, blanket, and picnic basket, for a great family event while enjoying the sounds of a full symphony orchestra live on the foreshore at The Entrance.

The orchestra will follow-up on April 2 with a concert –Lights, Action, Music! – at The Art House in Wyong. Without music, film would be a shadow of its current self, as film music sets the location, provides mood, and reveals unspoken thoughts.

Symphony Central Coast will perform music by past and present students from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney and Aaron Trew’s Central Coast Composer Collective, many live to screen.

There will be Hollywood favourites, including Maurice Jarre’s Laurence of Arabia, Michael Giacchino’s Up, and

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.

From Studio Ghibli, there will be music from Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and more.

This will be a film music concert like no other, from the rarely seen Elvira Madigan with music by Mozart, the powerful and moving Last of the Mohicans to the world premiere of a new score to Charles Klein’s 1928 film of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Telltale Heart.

LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ANSWERS

A bank of 14 batteries will be installed at Lake Haven Shopping Centre to store excess solar energy generated from the rooftop solar system.

In 2019 about 5,000 solar panels were installed across the entire roof of the centre which if laid end-to-end equals about 10kms, the distance from Lake Haven to Norah Head lighthouse, and with capacity to generate up to two megawatts of power.

Installation of the battery energy storage system forms an integral component of the shopping centre’s solar energy system and means it can draw less energy from the grid and consequently reduce demand on the electricity network.

It will store excess electricity from the rooftop solar panels for later use to meet the power needs only of the shopping centre and no electricity will be fed back into the grid.

It’s an investment of about $2.2M – and apart from the 14 battery racks there also will be 20 inverters and two control panels, all located in a secluded loading bay at the rear of the centre on the Lake Haven Oval side, where the equipment won’t be visible from public vantage points or cause any noise intrusion.