All posts tagged "Adelaide Town Hall"
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675LatestMusic Review: American Brass Quintet
The American Brass Quintet is currently touring Australia for the first time in 46 years. Conducting a national charm offensive with the help of Musica Viva, they are doing for brass what Italians did for pasta.
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729ArtsMusic Review: Masters 3 – “Dazzling Rachmaninoff”
The Adelaide Town Hall hosted the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as an all-star cast delivered a stellar program in the third of the aptly named “Masters” series. Charming British conductor Martyn Brabbins opened the concert with an informal address to the packed crowd revealing some inside information into the Australian premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ composition Overture to St Francis of Assisi op. 302 (2009)
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597LatestHigh Priests deliver a Brassy Sermon
The American Brass Quintet (ABQ) has landed on our shores for the first time in four decades. Touring nationally, “the high priests of brass” play the Adelaide Town Hall on Thursday 29 May at 7.30pm. Gordon Forester (@GordonForester) chatted to bass trombonist John Rojak via email about commissioning, how their two newest members were chosen, and career highlights.
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621LatestMusic Review: Russian Dreams
Presented by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Hump day with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and super-conductor Arvo Volmer has never been so romantic (musically speaking). The first Composers in Focus concert of the year, Russian Dreams put the spotlight on composers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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954LatestMusic Review: Cello Legend – Masters 2
Presented by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra & Adelaide International Cello Festival, a packed Adelaide Town Hall hosted an eclectic mix of music and one very special guest, cello luminary, Lynn Harrell, in the second masters concert, Cello Legend.
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790LatestMusic Review: Musica Viva: Sitkovetsky Trio
A Russian, a Chinese, and a German walk into a town hall. However, what they did next was not remotely akin to a joke. The Adelaide Town Hall hosted an evening of chamber music splendour as Musica Viva and the Adelaide International Cello Festival presented the Sitkovetsky Trio as part of their national tour.
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681LatestAdelaide Festival Review: Continuum
The Australian String Quartet's one-night-only concert was a program of perfect classical concertos with two contemporary and incredibly beautiful local pieces.
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717LatestFringe Review: Bewitching Macbeth
An unashamedly challenging retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth which is visually incredible and truly a joy to watch.
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794LatestAdelaide Youth Orchestras 2014 Flexes Some Musical Muscle
In a show of strength reflective of its growing presence on South Australia’s orchestral music calendar, Adelaide Youth Orchestras' 2014 Season will be its largest ever, with more community concerts and a collaboration of ‘titanic’ proportions with the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.
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Music Review: Youth Revolution Gala Concert
The 230 musicians, part of 4 orchestras (Adelaide Youth Wind Orchestra, Adelaide Youth Strings, Adelaide Youth Sinfonia, and Adelaide Youth Orchestra) delivered a flawless production.
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Youth Revolution Gala Concert
230 Musicians, 4 Orchestras & 1 Very Special Guest Soloist! The Adelaide Youth Orchestras’ (AdYO) Youth Revolution Gala Concert on Sunday 1 September at the Adelaide Town Hall is shaping up to be another superb showcase of South Australia’s best young musical talent.
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2013 NAIDOC SA Award Winners Announced
The recipients of the 2013 NAIDOC SA Awards were announced today at a ceremony at the Adelaide Town Hall to celebrate the start of this year’s NAIDOC week.
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Performing Arts
Theatre Review: Bill Oddie: An Oldie but a Goodie
Musician, author, singer, song-writer and all round performer Bill Oddie needed little introduction for the one-night-only Adelaide leg of his national tour, An Oldie but A Goodie.
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SA Police Band & Noerdlingen Knabenkapelle Unite for Lord Mayor’s Gala
The SA Police Band will be joined by Bavarian music ensemble Noerdlingen Knabenkapelle on the Adelaide Town Hall stage on Tuesday 26th March for the Lord Mayor’s Gala concert, with a blend of local and international sounds.
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Cycle Instead and Roll Past the Traffic
As the Clipsal 500 road closures come into full effect this week, why not get on your bike and avoid lengthy traffic hold ups.
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Next Week At Adelaide Festival
Read on to find out what is happening for the week at Adelaide Festival.
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Freefall at the Town Hall – for the 2013 Adelaide Fringe!
The Adelaide Town Hall will come alive with a spectacular human circus and physical theatre experience from 26 February when local troupe Gravity and Other Myths performs its latest production Freefall.
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The Lord Mayor’s Christmas Gala Concert 2012
Adelaide Town Hall will come alive with the sound of Christmas music next Tuesday 4th December with The Lord Mayor’s Christmas Gala Concert.
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Adelaide’s Olympic Welcome Home Parade
A civic ceremony at the Adelaide Town Hall followed by a parade through King William Street to Rundle Mall will celebrate the home-coming of our Olympic athletes on Thursday 23 August.
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It’s an Open House at Town Hall
When prominent politician and editor of the Advertiser Sir John Langdon Bonython died in 1939, the clock he donated to the Adelaide Town Hall stopped working, and nobody knows why.
