Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Carnival of the (Australian) Animals - An SSO Family Concert.

Australia is notorious for its fearsome fauna – any visitor can tell you about our biting, stinging animals! So an Australian like Matthew Hindson is probably best qualified to compose a modern "Carnival of the Animals" that's all about the nasty ones.

Big and hairy, small and scary, and finishing with the most dangerous creatures of all – humans! Then TV personality Richard Morecroft narrates the music that started it all – Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals – with new words by Bradley Trevor Greive (The Blue Day Book). From the long-eared bilby to the koala and the blobfish, Greive finds Aussie animals to match Saint-Saëns' original musical caricatures.

Suitable for ages 3+ and their families.
Arrive early or stay afterwards for our Kids Activity Zone.

Program

HINDSON Dangerous Creatures
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals with words by Bradley Trevor Greive

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9250 7777 or by email to info@sydneysymphony.com

Featured Australian Works

Dangerous creatures : a suite for orchestra (2008) by Matthew Hindson — performed by Toby Thatcher, Richard Morecroft and Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Featured artists

• Performer Sydney Symphony Orchestra
• Performer Richard Morecroft
• Conductor Toby Thatcher

Featured non-Australian music

Saint-Saëns