Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer Winley conductor
Christopher Moore viola

Program

Deborah Cheetham Long Time Living Here (Musical Acknowledgement of Country)
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
Mark Holdsworth Songs for the Dead: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No.5

About the performance

Experience an evening of sparkling Mendelssohn and Beethoven’s thundering Fifth Symphony with the MSO and conductor Jennifer Winley.

• Awestruck by the towering columns of rock and the rushing water at Fingal’s Cave on a visit to Scotland’s Hebrides islands, Mendelssohn wrote his evocative overture depicting the monumental beauty and forces of nature he encountered.

• Holdsworth draws from contemporary psychotherapeutic models of grief to navigate the experience of bereavement. Songs for the Dead is dedicated to the composer’s close and dear friend who has been a critical figure in the composer’s life, supporting Holdsworth as he has navigated, healed, and grown through his own losses.

• Beethoven’s Fifth opens with the most famous ‘da da da duumm!’ in history. But there is more to this piece than its impactful beginning: Beethoven takes a number of simple themes and expertly weaves them into a layered musical texture, all while building a sense of dramatic urgency.

MSO’s regional touring program is supported by Creative Victoria, Freemasons Foundation Victoria, the Robert Salzer Foundation, and the Angior Family Foundation.