if anyone is interested!
mine:
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what a fantastic collection of music! they’re just playing number one - Beethoven’s 9th (now trying to get the family organised to go and experience it again in November!).
All of my choices made it on the list except “Born Free”, which was not really a surprise!
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I would have put Va pensiero, the Hebrew slaves chorus, from Nabucco.
It was sung by the thousands who followed his funeral train.
(And often sung by the retired opera singers living in the Casa Verdi which he had gifted to them as a home).
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oh hell yes!!!
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Before John Williams, there was Korngold, a classical composer, who fled Austria as the Nazis came to power. He composed the scores for so many Hollywood films, regarded by Previn as the master composer of the movies. Time for a revival. It would be interesting to have a Korngold/Williams concert series.
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Greta Bradman must read Blitz. She is now on the ABC audio talking up Korngold
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I’m a bit of a Ravel fan. The Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte is right up there for me as is Daphnis et Chloe. The Finale of The Firebird is another favourite. Love Sigurd Jorsulfa by Grieg.
Hard to go past the 2nd Rachmaninov piano concerto.
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you mean “All By Myself”? 
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went to see “The Odd Couple” on Saturday at the Comedy Theatre. I can’t remember ever watching the tv show so didn’t have any preconceptions, only had a vague idea of the storyline. Really enjoyed it! lots of laugh out loud moments. Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney were excellent, and the rest of the cast were great too. It finishes up this week, so if you feel like an entertaining few hours, head along!
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Like a bad penny, keeps turning up. Saw it recently with Shaun Micaleff. Over it now.
I think it was originally a Broadway play, but it’s best known as a movie with Jack Lemmon as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar.
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TV show originally right? Da da da da daaa, da da daa da da daaa daaa?
I don’t think so. I’m sure movie preceded TV, and I’m guessing play preceded movie simply because Neil Simon was a playwright and most of his things appeared on stage first.
Wikipedia says you are correct!
Got a ticket to the concert of this tonight. Good concert, but perhaps a little short given all the TV stuff that was going on as they recorded it. Crowd went bananas for Nessun Dorma the most.
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I went to Sydmey
Symphony Orchestra Sydmey philharmonic choir at opera house
Music of John Williams
Fantastic
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Friends who had a large almond farm in the Riverina, prone to frosts, had set up Nessun Dorma to automatically play very loudly, as soon as a frost signal registered on the meter, then activate the system to save the crop.
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had a lovely afternoon at Hamer Hall on Saturday.
The program started with some Strauss, but a much more enjoyable piece than last time! it was ‘Don Juan’, and it had some beautiful melodic moments, lots of oboe and strings. Really liked it.
Next up was William Barton, a Kalkadunga man, playing a piece by Peter Sculthorpe called ‘Earth Cry’. William started the performance walking down through the audience playing the didgeridoo and making his way up to the stage, where he finished the piece accompanied by the orchestra. He then played a piece that he wrote when he was a teenager, called ‘Kalkadunga Yurdu’, which was about paying homage to ancestors and traditions that are passed down. It was a stunning piece of music, with him singing and playing the didgeridoo again accompanied by the orchestra.
The performance finished with ‘Carmina Burana’. Most people know this is the Big Beer Ad! had the MSO Chorus and Young Voices of Melbourne, and similar to Beethoven’s 9th, when the orchestra and choir are in full voice together, it is absolutely spine tingling.
If anyone is interested, you can stream the whole performance for free until August 5th:
and speaking of Beethoven’s 9th, I did get the family organised so we’ll be seeing that at the end of November 
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re the link above, Carmina Burana starts around the 1 hour 10 minute mark. First three minutes - epic!
and the piece that William Barton wrote starts around the 42 minute mark.
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was back at Hamer Hall a couple of weeks ago for an evening of passion and romance!
started with Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Tempest’, which was quite good. This was followed by a sensational Romeo and Juliet double, beginning with Tchaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture’, and continuing with Prokofiev’s ‘Suite from Romeo and Juliet’.
The overture has a lot of moments that people will find familiar, in particular one piece that some people will know as the kiss music from ‘The Sims’, while others will remember it from the scene in Moonraker when Jaws emerges from the wreckage of the cable car and meets his blonde pigtailed girlfriend!
The suite also has some well known pieces, with the Montagues and Capulets sounding like a mafia face off, and the beautiful Balcony Scene - people familiar with the movie ‘Centre Stage’ will know this one!
Was a terrific program, and it’s available to watch for free until August 20:
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