Ecstasy and Despair 24th and 25th November Romeo meets Juliet. Prokofiev meets Shakespeare. For their last concert for the year, the innovative Strathfield Symphony Orchestra will again shatter the conventional concert format. The brilliant team of Sadaharu Muramatsu, Music Director,and Brendon McDonnell, Performance Director,will bring you the passionate music of Prokofiev’s Romeo and…
2012 Season 3 – Fervour
1. great intensity of feeling or belief; ardour; zeal 2. Rare intense heat For our third concert this season, we say goodbye to Winter and welcome in the Spring. Under the direction of our Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Sadaharu Muramatsu, we start our concert with the rousing Zampa Overture by Hérold. As a special…
2012 Season 3 – Ophicleide limerick competition
Thanks to all for your wonderful entries. It was a lot of fun. So inventive were you that we had to create new categories for haiku, sonnets and international. AND THE WINNERS ARE … (envelope please, drum roll) LIMERICK JOHN FLETCHER, our redoubtable principal bassoon, for his take on Bonnie and Clyde. Some like it…
2012 Season 2 – Triumph!
Conductor: Sadaharu Muramatsu Saturday 23rd June, 7pm Sunday 24th June, 2.30pm Strathfield Town Hall, cnr Redmyre and Homebush Rds, Strathfield Tickets: Adults $25, Children and Students $15 (under 5 Free) Concession $20 Family $60 Programme: Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture (“Fingal’s Cave”) Ravel – Pavane for a Dead Princess Smetana…
Conversations – Strathfield Symphony in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Magazine
Check out the article on Strathfield Symphony Orchestra in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s magazine “Conversation”. We are on page 2! http://issuu.com/con-conversation/docs/conissue2
2012 Season 1 – Ode to Joy concert wrap up
“I really enJOYed the performance last night. I know this symphony very well, but this was my first experience hearing it as part of an audience. Great stuff!” – Chris M
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