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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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Whether you are looking to strengthen your relationships, build your brand or have an inspirational night out, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra can help you impress your guests with money-can’t-buy experiences in 2014.

A superb performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with private hospitality in the contemporary surrounds of the refurbished Hamer Hall, is an elegant and unique way to impress your clients.

With more than 45 concerts at Hamer Hall in 2014, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra can create a tailored, premium hospitality package for you and your guests, ensuring an unforgettable evening of musical entertainment.

Align your brand with Australia’s much loved, iconic flagship arts company and enjoy privileged access to Melbourne’s acclaimed Orchestra, renowned for presenting musical entertainment at the very highest level.

AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENING OF MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.

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MUSIC TO YOUR EARS

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A VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE

Your exclusive private dining event includes a world-class concert experience along with a premium hospitality package throughout the evening.

Meet the stars and impress your clients with a premium cocktail event. Access the MSO musicians and world class conductors, soloists and celebrity guests.

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from $565 per person (inc. GST) 10 people

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• Prime seating: Premium or A-Reserve concert tickets • Pre-concert drinks and canapés in a private dining room • An MSO guest speaker to introduce the concert repertoire • Souvenir concert program for each guest • Private MSO hosted interval function • Post-concert cocktail event, including a gourmet selection of canapés and premium beverages • The conductor, soloist and members of the MSO invited to attend the post-concert event PRICE: MINIMUM:

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from $475 per person (inc. GST) 10 people

IN TUNE WITH YOUR BUSINESS

This exclusive backstage experience takes you and your guests behind the scenes for a private introduction to the MSO. Enhanced by a pre-concert cocktail party and world-class performance, this is a truly inspirational occasion.

We understand what it takes to achieve an outstanding performance. In order to meet your business needs, a tailored approach is often required. We are happy to create the perfect package for you.

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• Personal backstage tour of Hamer Hall, including a photo on the conductor’s podium • Pre-concert drinks and canapés in a private dining room • Prime seating: Premium or A-Reserve concert tickets • Souvenir concert program • Private MSO-hosted interval hospitality

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from $380 per person (inc. GST) 10 people

Large-scale client entertainment Private events and performances Family and education concert experiences Open Rehearsals Corporate Leadership and performance workshops Sit on stage with the Orchestra Jam with the MSO

James Ralston Events Coordinator T: (03) 9626 1415 F: (03) 9626 1101 E: ralstonj@mso.com.au

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• Exclusive private dining room, with personal waiter service • Prime seating: Premium or A-Reserve concert tickets • A concert introduction by an MSO guest speaker • Complimentary concert program for each guest • Drinks and canapés on arrival, followed by a twocourse dinner • Interval drinks in your private function room • Post-concert dessert supper with musicians of the MSO, conductor and guest soloist all invited to attend

2014 CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT CONCERT OPPORTUNITIES

CONTENTS Educational and Informative ............................................................ 7 Introducing Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 ................................................... 7 Introducing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 ........................................... 7 Introducing Mozart’s Gran Partita ........................................................ 7 Great Classics ................................................................................... 8 Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody .................................................... 9 Wigglesworth Conducts Rachmaminov .............................................. 9 Piers Lane’s Beethoven .......................................................................... 10 Vivaldi, Haydn And Mozart: Baroque And Classical Masters ............ 10 Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Featuring Emanuel Ax............... 11 The Romantics: Brahms, Schumann And Strauss ................................. 11 Mahler 1: The Cycle Begins.................................................................... 12 Diego Matheuz Conducts Beethoven And Tchaikovsky.................... 12 Mozart Favourites Featuring The Clarinet Concerto........................... 13 Concierto De Aranjuez .......................................................................... 13 Sir Andrew Conducts Berlioz And Beethoven ...................................... 14 Mahler 2: Resurrection............................................................................ 14 Messiah .................................................................................................... 15 Contemporary ................................................................................... 18 Tapiola ...................................................................................................... 19 Frescoes Of Dionysius ............................................................................. 19 Concerto Champêtre ............................................................................ 19 Popular .............................................................................................. 20 East Meets West: MSO Chinese New Year Celebration with Tan Dun 21

Concerts conducted by the MSO’s Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King .................................... 21 A Journey Through Jazz: From Louis Armstrong To Herbie Hancock . 21 Musical Tales From Childhood ............................................................... 22 Teddy Tahu Rhodes On Broadway........................................................ 22 Amercian Panorama: From Jazz To The Big Screen ............................ 23

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Ears Wide Open is an interactive journey into music, live on stage in the beautiful Melbourne Recital Centre – conducted and presented by Australia’s most charismatic musical personality, Richard Gill.

INTRODUCING SIBELIUS’ SYMPHONY NO. 2

Maestro Gill is one of Australia’s pre-eminent and most admired conductors specialising in opera, musical theatre and vocal and choral training and is internationally respected as a music educator. As well as holding the positions of Music Director of Victorian Opera and Artistic Director of the Education Program for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Richard has had numerous appearances on ABC TV’s Spicks & Specks and has given multiple presentations on igniting imagination and creativity through music.

Monday 17 March, 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

These 80 minute concerts are an enjoyable introduction to classical music, while enabling music lovers to take their listening enjoyment to a new level.

INTRODUCING BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 4 Monday 19 May, 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

INTRODUCING MOZART’S GRAN PARTITA Tuesday 9 September, 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE

EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE

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GREAT CLASSICS

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GREAT CLASSICS Join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for a night of inspirational musical entertainment. These Great Classics performances offer the world’s leading conductors and soloists in a rich and exciting selection of classical music including major works by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Mahler.

These concerts offer wonderfully diverse programs containing beautiful music that provides enjoyment for the experienced listener and the newcomer to classical music.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

RACHMANINOV’S PAGANINI RHAPSODY

WIGGLESWORTH CONDUCTS RACHMAMINOV

Thursday 27 March, 8pm Friday 28 March, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Thursday 1 May, 8pm Friday 2 May, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Borodin Rachmaninov Sibelius

Schenlzer Mendelssohn Rachmaninov

Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Symphony No.2

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Diego Matheuz conductor Joyce Yang piano Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus This thrilling season opening event begins with Orchestra and Chorus in the savage, sensuous music by Borodin that was later heard so unforgettably in the musical Kismet.

(Remember Stranger in Paradise?) Superstar pianist Joyce Yang is soloist in Rachmaninov’s powerhouse piano showcase before the MSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Diego Matheuz reveals the breathtaking landscape of Finland in Sibelius’ evocative masterwork.

A Freak in Burbank Piano Concerto No.1 Symphony No.2

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Mark Wigglesworth conductor Saleem Abboud Ashkar piano Sensational musical talent Saleem Abboud Ashkar makes his MSO debut with a favourite guest of the Orchestra and its audiences, British conductor Mark Wigglesworth.

Wigglesworth brings his legendary flair to Rachmaninov’s passionate, luxuriously melodic symphony.

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MSO Principal Guest Conductor DIEGO MATHEUZ

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PIERS LANE’S BEETHOVEN

VIVALDI, HAYDN AND MOZART: BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL MASTERS

Friday 6 June, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Thursday 19 June, 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Brahms Beethoven Pärt

Tragic Overture Piano Concerto No.3 Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Mozart Haydn Danzi

Beethoven

Symphony No.4

Vivaldi Haydn

Symphony No.23 Cello Concerto in C Variations on La ci darem for cello and orchestra Concerto in F major RV 574 per molti instrumenti Symphony No.22 The Philosopher

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Olari Elts conductor Piers Lane piano

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Elizabeth Wallfisch violin/director Raphael Wallfisch cello

Charismatic Australian-born pianist Piers Lane was the sensational soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto when the MSO returned to Hamer Hall in 2012. Now he returns by popular demand in the concerto in which Beethoven bid farewell to the 18th century and ushered in a new era of emotional expression.

The extraordinary husband-and-wife team of Australianborn violinist Elizabeth and British cellist Rafael Wallfisch join forces with the MSO for this sublime combination of Baroque and Classical masterworks, from Haydn’s sublime concerto to the dazzling virtuosity of Danzi’s variations on a duet from Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

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MSO Chief Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS

Monday 30 June, 6.30pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne Ives Beethoven Berlioz

Orchestral Set No.2 Piano Concerto No.4 Symphonie fantastique

THE ROMANTICS: BRAHMS, SCHUMANN AND STRAUSS Thursday 3 July, 8pm Friday 4 May, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne Brahms Schumann Strauss Grainger

Academic Festival Overture Cello Concerto Don Juan The Warriors

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Emanuel Ax piano Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Truls Mørk cello

This program features Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4, a work tailor-made for the poetic and luminous playing of Emanuel Ax. In its extravagant story of a spurned lover’s imagined revenge and its vivid changes of mood, Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique is one of the key signposts of the Romantic imagination.

The MSO’s Chief Conductor is joined by a cellist ‘of angelic grace and purity of tone’ (London Telegraph) for the heartfelt lyricism of Schumann’s concerto, a key work in the world of musical Romanticism. Sir Andrew then takes you on a journey through the ardour and heroics of the world’s greatest lover, as imagined in Richard Strauss’ musical adventure.

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BEETHOVEN’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4, FEATURING EMANUEL AX

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BACKSTAGE TOUR PRIOR TO CONCERT

MAHLER 1: THE CYCLE BEGINS

DIEGO MATHEUZ CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN AND TCHAIKOVSKY

Thursday 24 July, 8pm Friday 25 July, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Friday 12 September, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Strauss Mahler

Four Last Songs Symphony No.1

Beethoven Beethoven Tchaikovsky

Leonore: Overture No. 3 Violin Concerto Symphony No.6 Pathétique

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Erin Wall soprano

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Diego Matheuz conductor Nicola Benedetti violin

A major event in Melbourne’s musical life begins with this first concert in Sir Andrew Davis’ cycle of the complete Mahler symphonies, which will be a major feature of Sir Andrew’s work as Chief Conductor in coming seasons.

In this unmissable musical experience, he brings together one of Mahler’s first masterworks – his bold and exciting First Symphony – with the Four Last Songs Strauss created as his swan-song to the world of vocal music.

Principal Guest Conductor Diego Matheuz directs this thrilling program, which culminates in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique symphony which, in its melodic richness and emotional power, it is one of the greatest of all Romantic orchestral works.

Scottish-born violinist Nicola Benedetti “brings ... a degree of heat, subtlety and quicksilver colours only achieved by the world’s best.” (The Times, London.) She is soloist in Beethoven’s supreme concerto for the violin.

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CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ

Thursday 18 September, 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Thursday 2 October, 8pm Friday 3 October, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Mozart

Debussy

Mozart Mozart

Serenade No.10 for winds Gran Partita Clarinet Concerto Symphony No.34

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Michael Collins clarinet/director

In the movie Amadeus, the composer Salieri speaks of the Adagio of Mozart’s Gran Partita as a moment “of such delight it had me trembling. The light flickered in the room. My eyes clouded!” Under superb British clarinettist Michael Collins, this sumptuous, elegant work is part of a spellbinding collection of Mozart masterpieces, including the concerto voted Australia’s favourite by ABC Classic FM listeners.

Tan Dun

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Guitar Concerto AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Rodrigo Debussy

Concierto de Aranjuez Iberia

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Xuefei Yang guitar Hailed by the New York Sun as ‘one of the most extraordinary instrumentalists in the world,’ Chineseborn guitarist Xufei Yang makes her Australian debut playing the world’s favourite guitar concerto– and one of the most popular pieces of Spanish music ever written – Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

GREAT CLASSICS

MOZART FAVOURITES FEATURING THE CLARINET CONCERTO

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SIR ANDREW CONDUCTS BERLIOZ AND BEETHOVEN

MAHLER 2: RESURRECTION

Monday 10 November, 6.30pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Thursday 13 November, 8pm Friday 14 November, 8pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Berlioz Berlioz Beethoven

Harold in Italy Reverie and Caprice for violin and orchestra Symphony No.7

Mahler

Symphony No.2 Resurrection

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor James Ehnes viola and violin

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Erin Wall soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

The heart of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the sublime Allegretto, a walking tune subject to transformations that must have seemed tremendously novel to the work’s first audience in 1813, but now seem dream-like in their perfection. Sir Andrew’s survey of Berlioz’s major works continues in the company of James Ehnes. As Gramophone magazine said of this magnificent musician: ‘You get the feeling every time he puts bow to string that something special will, quite naturally, just happen.’

Mahler’s music is at once epic and intimate, exultant and despairing, the revelations of a humanist in search of faith. He described his Second Symphony as ‘the most important thing that I have done.’ The finale is radiant with the certainty of eternal life.

For these landmark concert events – the second part of Sir Andrew’s multi-season cycle of Mahler symphonies – the Orchestra’s Chief Conductor will be joined by the MSO Chorus and superb international soloists.

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ENJOYMENT FOR THE EXPERIENCED LISTENER AND THE NEWCOMER TO CLASSICAL MUSIC.

Saturday 13 November, 7pm Sunday 14 November, 5pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne Handel

Messiah

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Ottavio Dantone conductor Sara Macliver soprano David Hansen counter-tenor Paul McMahon tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus A great Christmas tradition, Messiah’s dramatic story of faith, suffering and redemption includes such treasured musical moments as Rejoice greatly, the Hallelujah Chorus, and The trumpet shall sound – all part of a masterpiece of the Baroque, one which offers a message of belief that continues to resonate through time. The MSO Chorus joins a magnificent cast and a fine Handel conductor for this superb performance.

GREAT CLASSICS

MESSIAH

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ALIGN YOUR BRAND WITH AUSTRALIA’S MUCH LOVED, ICONIC FLAGSHIP ARTS COMPANY AND ENJOY PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO MELBOURNE’S ACCLAIMED ORCHESTRA, RENOWNED FOR PRESENTING MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL.

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CONTEMPORARY Composer, pianist, conductor and one of the most stimulating and thought-provoking musicians of our time, Olli Mustonen’s recent performances of the Beethoven piano concertos with the MSO brought capacity audiences to their feet in acclaim. He returns to Melbourne to program and direct Australia’s most important festival of contemporary music, Metropolis, which will feature magnificent Australian violinist Kristian Winther in a major solo role in two programs.

‘As a musical interpreter, Olli Mustonen the conductor is very like Olli Mustonen the pianist. Detail after detail is finely articulated, as though etched with the point of a needle… [There] are passages where the clarity and extraordinary finesse yield something I can only describe as visionary’ – BBC Music Magazine

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FRESCOES OF DIONYSIUS

CONCERTO CHAMPÊTRE

Saturday 5 April, 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Wednesday 9 April, 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Saturday 12th April, 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Sibelius Rautavaara Mustonen

Shchedrin

Frescoes of Dionysius Sonata for Violin and Orchestra

Kaila Shchedrin

WORLD PREMIERE

Kokkonen Mustonen

Tapiola Violin Concerto Symphony No.1

Mustonen

Shchedrin

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Olli Mustonen conductor Kristian Winther violin Juha Kotalainen baritone

“Sotto voce concerto” for cello and orchestra

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Olli Mustonen conductor Kristian Winther violin Marko Ylonen cello

Cello Concerto Music for two oboes, two horns, celesta and strings Durch einen Spiegel Concerto champêtre

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Olli Mustonen conductor Marko Ylonen cello

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TAPIOLA

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POPULAR Featuring the great classics of the popular repertoire, these MSO concerts celebrate the music you know and love. In 2014, these performances include Howard Shore’s celebrated score for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the very best of jazz trumpet with legendary James Morrison, unforgettable music theatre tunes sung by Teddy Tahu Rhodes and all-American greatest hits with Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart.

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EAST MEETS WEST: MSO CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION WITH TAN DUN Friday 7 February, 6.30pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne Tan Dun, one of the most important musicians of our time, returns to Melbourne to help the city celebrate Chinese New Year, in this special concert in which two of his major works share the program with classics from the Western tradition.

His concerto for Pipa was inspired by Chinas’ Ghost Opera tradition, where shamans communicate with spirits from the past and future and establish dialogues between nature and the human soul. In his Triple Resurrection, Dun celebrates the bicentenary of Wagner’s birth with a spectacular piece of orchestral drama.

Lu Siqing, on of China’s finest violinists, is soloist in Mendelssohn’s eternally popular violin concerto, and this program concludes with the powerfully y emotional music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet score.

Friday 28 February, 7pm Saturday 1 March, 7pm Sunday 2 March, 2pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Saturday 8 March, 7pm Sunday 9 March, 2pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra National Boys Choir of Australia Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor James Morrison trumpet

Following the presentations of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra returns for the final installment of Peter Jackson’s epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Howard Shore’s Academy Award ® -winning score will be performed live to the epic motion picture by the MSO, MSO Chorus, National Boys Choir of Australia and soloists.

Take a hip trip through the history of jazz in the company of Australia’s master of the jazz trumpet, James Morrison.

With conductor Benjamin Northey, Morrison will be your guide on this panoramic survey of syncopation, taking you on a journey from Dixieland to Bop, from the Birth of the Blues to Birdland.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

A JOURNEY THROUGH JAZZ: FROM LOUIS ARMSTRONG TO HERBIE HANCOCK

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MEET THE STARS MERCEDES-BENZ GUESTS WITH HUMAN NATURE

MUSICAL TALES FROM CHILDHOOD

TEDDY TAHU RHODES ON BROADWAY

Friday 23 May, 7.30pm Melbourne Town Hall

Saturday 14 June, 7pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Ravel Strauss L. Mozart Humperdinck

Berlioz Berlioz

Mother Goose: Suite Duo-Concertino Toy Symphony Hansel and Gretel: Suite

Beethoven

Harold in Italy Reverie and Caprice for violin and orchestra Symphony No.7

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Carter conductor Woodwind soloists of the MSO Eddie Perfect host

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Teddy Tahu Rhodes bass-baritone

This enchanting program of music for the young at heart opens with Ravel’s impressionistic evocation of such stories as Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty in his Mother Goose suite, and concludes with music from the widely loved operatic version of Hansel and Gretel, including the Evening Prayer.

Program includes songs from Oklahoma! Carousel, South Pacific and Les Misérables.

He’s been a dangerous Don Giovanni on the opera stage and a suave, sensational Emile de Becque in South Pacific.

Now international opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes brings his unique vocal magic to the Broadway song book for these MSO Pops performances.

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MSO CONCERTS CELEBRATE THE MUSIC YOU KNOW AND LOVE.

MELBOURNE TOWN HALL HOST: EDDIE PERFECT

ARABIAN NIGHT

Saturday 1 November, 7pm Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

Friday 5 December, 7.30pm Melbourne Town Hall

Bernstein Gershwin

Nielsen Saint-Saëns

Copland Williams Dave Brubeck Chris Brubeck

Candide: Overture Three Preludes, orch.

Don Sebesky Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes Far and Away: Suite Take Five, Unsquare Dance and Blue Rondo à la Turk Travels in Time for Three

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Keith Lockhart conductor Time for Three instrumental ensemble The members of the groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three describe themselves as “the world’s first classically-trained garage band.” Under the direction of Boston Pops’ Chief Conductor Keith Lockhart, they give the Melbourne premiere of a concerto written for them by Chris Brubeck (son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck), which combines classical elements with jazz and bluegrass.

Rimsky-Korsakov

Aladdin: Excerpts Piano Concerto No.5 Egyptian Scheherazade

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Andrea Lam piano Eddie Perfect host It’s said that Saint-Saëns heard one of the sensuous themes of his Egyptian Concerto sung by Nubian boat-men as he was sailing down the Nile – and wrote it down on his shirt-cuff then and there. Australian-born pianist Andrea Lam, lauded for her ‘thrilling virtuosity’ (Sydney Morning Herald) joins the MSO for this exciting concerto – part of a celebration of great orchestral music inspired by the Middle East, which culminates in Rimsky-Korsakov’s magical collection of tales from the 1001 Nights, Scheherazade.

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AMERCIAN PANORAMA: FROM JAZZ TO THE BIG SCREEN

CONTACT James Ralston Events Coordinator T: (03) 9626 1415 F: (03) 9626 1101 E: ralstonj@mso.com.au

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ABC Southbank Centre 120-130 Southbank Boulevard Southbank VIC 3006 Phone: (03) 9626 1111 Fax: (03) 9626 1122 Box Office: (03) 9929 9600 twitter.com/melbsymphony facebook.com/MelbourneSymphony

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CONTACT Cameron Mowat Director of Development T: (03) 9626 1246 F: (03) 9626 1101 E: mowatc@mso.com.au

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ABC Southbank Centre 120-130 Southbank Boulevard Southbank VIC 3006 Phone: (03) 9626 1111 Fax: (03) 9626 1122 Box Office: (03) 9929 9600 twitter.com/melbsymphony facebook.com/MelbourneSymphony

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