Event
MSO: War Requiem
- Date: Thursday, 11 June 2015 to Friday, 12 June 2015, 8pm
- Venue: Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne — 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: $25-$139 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9929 9600
Event Details
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, a haunting piece interweaving the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with the works of First World War poet Wilfred Owen, is paired with the profoundly moving Elegy in memoriam Rupert Brooke. Written by an Australian composer stationed in Gallipoli, shortly before his death at the Battle of the Somme, the elegy makes for a stirring memorial to one of the defining conflicts of the twentieth century.
Featured non-Australian music: Britten
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Elegy for string orchestra : in memoriam Rupert Brooke (1915) by Frederick Septimus Kelly — performed by Andrew Davis and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Andrew Davis
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