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Antonin Dvořák - the White Hat guideWe are in the process of preparing a comprehensive listening guide for classical music. Please return again soon.
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Australian String Quartet - Towards Light
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The Australian String Quartet have new personnel for 2012 and White Hat feels
it is appropriate that for their first concert the new ensemble should emerge
out of the dreamtime with Peter Scunthorpe's Jabiru Dreaming (String Quartet
No.11). Dvořák as at his tuneful best in his String Quartet No.10 then
the concert finishes with one of the great 20th century chamber works -
Shostakovich's Piano Quintet. This work captures Shostakovich in one of his rare
moments of relaxation and seeming contentment. We have rated this concert at 4
hats on potential and, who knows, after this new ensemble has been heard for the
first time this may become 5 hats.
7pm, Wednesday 7th March 2012,
Adelaide Town Hall
7pm, Thursday 8th March 2012,
Conservatorium Theatre,
South Bank, Brisbane
7pm, Monday 12th March 2012,
Perth Concert Hall
7pm, Wednesday 14th March 2012,
Melbourne Recital Centre,
7pm, Thursday 15th March 2012,
City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney |
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St Lawrence String Quartet and Diana Doherty
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A fine string quartet, one of the best oboists in the world, a Mozart chamber
work full of tuneful grace and a Dvorák quartet ending with a movement of
exuberant optimism. White Hat suggests it would be a dreary soul indeed who
wouldn't enjoy this concert.
 2pm,
Saturday 21st April 2012,
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
8pm, Saturday 28th April 2012, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre,
Melbourne |
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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Melbourne Town Hall Proms - Beethoven and Dvorák
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Grams (conductor) and Andreas
Haefliger (piano).
The inspiration of the folk music and culture of his native Bohemia invests
Dvorák’s music with enormous energy and spirit, and his Seventh Symphony
explodes with all the passion and vigour of this inspiration. Paired with works
by two German masters who inspired him, this concert of great classics is pure
delight.
Dvorák took the Germane tradition of music developed by Beethoven and Brahms
and combined it with inspiration drawn from the folk music and culture of his
native Bohemia to create the wonderful Symphony No.7. It is both tuneful and
exuberant and well suited to a prom concert.
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Melbourne Town Hall
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7.30pm, Friday 18th May 2012 |
Bookings through Ticketmaster: 1300 72 30 38 |
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Amarcord
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White Hat suggests that if you want to become a world class a capella ensemble,
a good tsarting point is growing up singing Bach as boy sopranos in the Leipzig
church where Bach himself presided. Since that time Amacord have gone on to be
regarded as one of the finest male vocal ensembles in the world.
The Singing Club – Four Centuries of Song Renaissance madrigals, part-songs
by Schubert,
Schumann,
Elgar,
Dvorák,
Grieg and others, alongside folk songs
from around the world.
7.30pm, Tuesday 17th July 2012,
Perth Concert Hall,
Perth
7.30pm, Thursday 19th July 2012,
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
2pm, Saturday 21st July 2012,
City Recital Hall, Angel
Place, Sydney
7pm, Tuesday 24th July 2012,
Llewellyn Hall, ANU
School of Music, Canberra
8pm ,Thursday 26th July 2012, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre,
Melbourne |
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Enquiries & bookings: 1800 688 482 |
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