QSO Music on Sundays: Something Old, Something New at Concert Hall, QPAC

Full of contrasts, the old and the new, the serious and funny, frenetic and calm this program puts the spotlight on opposites; the melodic in Faure's haunting Pavane, Satie's enigmatic and transparently beautiful Gymnopedie No.1 and Wolf- Ferrari's sumptuous Il segreto di Susanna Overture. The crisp rhythmically charged music of Schubert's Marche Militaire and Beethoven's Contredances is offset by Schickele's whimsical humour in his irreverent spoof of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man which becomes a Fanfare for the Common Cold. Vaughan Williams' The Wasps begins with "buzzing" and drifts into serenity. Gliere's expressive Concerto for Horn introduces QSO's Malcolm Stewart as soloist.