Elder Hall's Evenings at Elder Hall Series to Conclude 26 Oct

The grand finale of the Elder Hall's Evenings at Elder Hall for this year is a brimful of extraordinary music performed by the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra with acclaimed Tenor, Patrick Power in a presentation acknowledging masterpieces by musical legends: Wagner, Britten and Lutoslawski.Concerto for Orchestra takes place 6.30pm Saturday 26 October 2013.

For its final concert of the year the Elder Hall presents a program of diverse and richly evocative themes.

Wagner's bi-centenary is remembered in the moving and evocative Prelude to Tristan and Isolde. Of which Wagner wrote: "henceforth no end to the yearning, longing, rapture, and misery of love: world, power, fame, honor, chivalry, loyalty, and friendship, scattered like an insubstantial dream; one thing alone left living: longing, longing unquenchable, desire forever renewing itself, craving and languishing; one sole redemption: death, surcease of being, the sleep that knows no waking!"

Benjamin Britten centenary celebrations continue with Britten's exquisite, adventurous panorama Les Illuminations featuring prominent tenor Patrick Power. Britten used the poetry of modernist French poet Arthur Rimbaud as inspiration for this work.

The concert ends on a dramatic note with Lutoslawski's masterpiece Concerto for Orchestra . In three movements the Concerto combines folk themes, fine orchestration with vibrant colours and rhythms.

Concerto for Orchestra presents a memorable program for this final offering in a season of extraordinary music.

Evenings at Elder Hall series gratefully acknowledges the series' supporters: SA POWER NETWORKS, Helpmann Academy, and wine sponsor - Soul Growers, Barossa Valley

For information about this final concert in the 2013 Evenings at Elder Hall and future 2014 events contact Claire on (08) 8313 5925, email claire.oremland@adelaide.edu.au or visit www.elderhall.adelaide.edu.au.

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