Orchestral Tapestries:
From the 16th to the 21st Century

Saturday 15th March, 8.00pm
Gillian Moore Centre for Performing Arts, Pymble Ladies' College,
Avon Road, Pymble

What a great start to KPO's 2008 season! A stirring 16th century fanfare by Gabrieli is followed by two of the most popular works of the orchestral repertoire - Mendelssohn's powerful and moving symphonic tribute to the music and ideals of the Reformation, and Respighi's colourful work that utilises the full range of sonic resources offered by a modern orchestra... to which he then added a number of intriguing special effects!

Completing the program is Still Water, an evocative work by Van P Nguyen - first performed at the 2005 KPO Composer Workshop - which features the deep-throated sonorities of the bass clarinet.

Soloist: Ros Dunlop, bass clarinet
Conductor: Rowan Harvey-Martin

Respighi     -	The Pines of Rome
Mendelssohn     -	Symphony No 5 in D major Op 107, Reformation
Gabrieli     -	Canzon duodecimi toni, a 10 (No 2)
Van P Nguyen     -	Still Water for bass clarinet & orchestra