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August 2009
1 Sat
2 Sun
ST STEPHEN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
211 Mowbray Road, Chatswood
$5/$2
Hill Norman and Beard 1929/1968 3/24
Enquiries: 02 9415 1727
First Sundays at 3pm - 4pm with Afternoon Tea
Adrian So (organ student, Trinity Grammar School)
3 Mon
4 Tue
5 Wed
1.15pm - 1.45pm St James', King St lunchtime recital More info Donation
6 Thu
7 Fri
1.10pm - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral lunchtime recital More info Donation
8 Sat
5.00pm - 6.00pm 2MBS-FM Organ Music Society Radio Program 102.5MHz Program details
9 Sun
3pm Our Lady Of Good Counsel Catholic Church
8 Currie Road Forestville
Proceeds to St Vincent de Paul $10/$5
Ahlborn-Galanti electronic organ
Enquiries 02 9451 3695
Lindsay Gilroy (organ) and Sarah Webster (Soprano)
10 Mon
11 Tue
12 Wed
1.15pm - 1.45pm St James', King St lunchtime recital More info Donation - Sarah Kim (Paris Conservatoire)
13 Thu
14 Fri
1.10pm - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral lunchtime recital More info Donation
15 Sat
6.30pm - 7.00pm 2MBS-FM Organ Music Society Radio Program 102.5MHz Theatre Organ Program details
16 Sun
17 Mon
18 Tue
19 Wed
1.15pm - 1.45pm St James', King St lunchtime recital More info Donation
20 Thu
21 Fri
1.10pm - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral lunchtime recital More info Donation
8.00pm Sydney Opera House
The Grand Organ Symphony | Friday 21 August at 8pm | Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony is a sumptuous and powerful model of a Romantic symphony. He transforms and deftly weaves his musical ideas until – literally pulling out the stops – that earworm of a final tune (Babe!) thunders into the hall. Saint-Saëns’ friends called his Third the ‘symphony with organ’, and this concert offers a rare chance to hear the Sydney Opera House organ – the largest mechanical action organ in the world – take the spotlight.
Shostakovich wrote his First Cello Concerto for Rostropovich. It’s obsessive music that veers between radiant lyricism and undercurrents of bleakness. Korean cellist Han-Na Chang made her Sydney Symphony debut with Lorin Maazel in 2000 – just a teenager but already possessing a prodigious technique. A former student of Rostropovich himself, she now returns to bring new maturity and authenticity to this demanding music.
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No.3 (Organ)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Han-Na Chang cello
David Drury organ
Pre-concert talk in the Northern Foyer by Natalie Shea, 45 minutes before each performance.
Single tickets A reserve price $98 | Organ Society members A reserve price $78pp.
Single tickets B reserve price $88 | Organ Society members B reserve price $70pp.
Single tickets C reserve price $68 | Organ Society members C reserve price $54pp.
Offer closes 5pm Wednesday 19 August 2009.
Must ring Sydney Symphony Box Office 02 8215 4600 Mon 9am – Fri 5pm must quote code 1541.
Booking fee $4 will apply.
22 Sat
23 Sun
GREAT HALL SYDNEY UNIVERSITY
Parramatta Road Free Admission
Von Beckerath 1972 M 3/53
Enquiries 02 4758 6067
*Free Carillon Recital every Sunday at 2pm
3.30pm - Amy Johansen - Sydney University Organist - Harmony of the Spheres
Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy
2pm Orion Centre, Campsie
Theatre Organ Society of Australia (NSW)
Brett Valliant (USA) - Great American Song Book: Porter, Kerne & Berlin
$27.50, $25, $20, $10
24 Mon
25 Tue
26 Wed
1.15pm - 1.45pm St James', King St lunchtime recital More info Donation
Andrej Kouznetsov, St James' Organist
1.10 – 1.50pm SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
Verbrugghen Hall
Pogson/South Island Organ Co 1973/2001 3/37
Free Lunchbreak Organ Recital
Students of the Organ Studies Unit put the Pogson through its paces...
Enquiries: 02 9351 1222 or conconcerts@usyd.edu.au
27 Thu
28 Fri
1.10pm - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral lunchtime recital More info Donation
S o n g s o f P r a i s e
Returning by popular demand, this hymn festival is being repeated in 2009.
7.30pm, Friday 28 August 2009
St John’s Church
Cnr Pacific Hwy/St John’s Ave, Gordon
Brett McKern, Conductor
Organist and Director of Music, St John’s Church, and Director, The Cathedral Singers National Chair, The Guild of Church Musicians
Paul Goodchild, Trumpet - Associate Principal, Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Cathedral Singers
Nicola Chau & Stacey Yang, Organists
Tickets at the Door: $10
Sing your favourite hymns such as
Ride on in Majesty;
Forty days and forty nights;
Holy holy holy;
Lo! He comes with clouds descending;
And Parry’s beloved ‘Jerusalem’
Last year the full church resounded to many favourite hymns sung with enthusiasm led by The Cathedral Singers and SSO Associate Principal Trumpeter, Paul Goodchild. This year the same musicians are leading the music making, and we look forward to another stunning event.
29 Sat
30 Sun
31 Mon