Noon
A Community project with Taranaki Youth Orchestra has been chosen as the 2018 SOUNZ Community Commission. The winning project for this year’s Commission will see composer David Hamilton create a new work to be performed by the Taranaki Youth Orchestra and Taranaki Junior Jay Band, along with the region’s musical community of school choirs and instrumentalists.
1pm Amalia Hall explores the passion of Bartok
Orchestra Wellington opens its 2018 season with Golden City: a concert featuring its concert master Amalia Hall as soloist in Bartok’s Violin Concerto no 2. The young New Zealand violinist is just back from performing in Uzbekistan. She will tackle the demanding concerto which Bartok wrote h in 1938 as the shadows of fascism loomed large over Europe. That tension finds plenty of expression on the music’s rapid twists and turns.
Violinist Amalia Hall Photo: Supplied
1.30pm Review: NZSO’s Juxtaposition
Who would have thought Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood’s compositions would come to life thanks to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Shed Six on Wellington’s waterfront was heaving with people, and music last Friday, as the NZSO performed its second concert in the Shed Series. Hadyn Green was there to enjoy a Symphony by his namesake (Haydn Symphony No. 60) along with Greenwood and Arvo Pärt.
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Photo: wikicommons
2pm
We’re continuing our focus on classical music patrons and today it’s Russian business woman Nadezhda von Meck. She provided financial support for Tchaikovsky for 13 years.
