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ACO Collective: Serenades for Strings

Event

ACO Collective: Serenades for Strings

  • Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 7:30pm
  • Venue: Moncrieff Entertainment Centre — 177 Bourbong Street, BUNDABERG, QLD
  • Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on 1800 444 444

Event Details

PAUL STANHOPE Dancing on Clouds
BEETHOVEN (arr. Bernard Rofe) Romance for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in G major
MENDELSSOHN Sinfonia No.7 in D minor
ELGAR Serenade for Strings
BEETHOVEN (arr. strings) String Quartet in F minor ‘Serioso’

Helena Rathbone Director & Violin
ACO Collective
Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir
Cairns Only


Helena Rathbone, Principal Violin and founding Director of ACO Collective, celebrates her 25th anniversary with the ACO in a program curated around works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

We open with Dancing on Clouds, a piece by Australian composer Paul Stanhope for ACO Collective’s recently recorded Hush album of music for children’s hospitals. Then it’s straight into Beethoven’s First Romance for violin and orchestra, delightful and optimistic in mood, followed by Mendelssohn’s youthful and energetic Sinfonia No.7.

Helena is a great admirer of fellow Brit, Edward Elgar. His Serenade for Strings is a tranquil piece, a far cry from his later, larger works. Our grand finale brings a dramatic shift in mood with Beethoven’s great String Quartet in F minor, Op.95, arranged for string orchestra. Known as the “Serioso”, it has a tempestuous quality that brings the program to a gripping end.

Featured non-Australian music: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Elgar

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 1800 444 444 or by email to boxoffice@aco.com.au

Featured Australian Works

Dancing on Clouds : string orchestra (2018) by Paul Stanhope
— performed by Helena Rathbone and ACO Collective

Featured artists

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