Event
Heavenly Cities
- Date: Saturday, 21 May 2016, 8pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Metropolis New Music Festival 2016 series
- Tickets: Standard: $54 | Conc. & Student: $44 | MSO Subscriber - Standard $48.60 ($39.60 Conc.)
Event Details
Cities of the imagination
Oliver Knussen’s witty tribute to Maurice Sendak’s animal kingdom; Olivier Messiaen’s celestial city of many colours; and Heiner Goebbels’ ‘phenomenon of the city from various sides’. Be among the first to hear a new work, Diasporas, by Melbourne composer Barry Conyngham.
This concert includes a new work commissioned as part of the MSO’s Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program.
Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Recital Centre.
Program
Oliver Knussen
The Way to Castle Yonder
Barry Conyngham
New work
Oliver Messiaen
Couleurs de la cité céleste
Michael Bakrnčev
Sky Jammer
Heiner Goebbels
Samplersuite from Surrogate Cities
Featured non-Australian music: Knussen, Messiaen, Goebbels
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
Diasporas : orchestra by Barry Conyngham — performed by Robert Spano and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | |
Sky jammer : orchestra by Michael Bakrnčev — performed by Robert Spano and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Robert Spano
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