Willoughby Symphony will launch its 2012 Symphonic Odyssey concert series with the passionate and exhilarating Enigma Variations, at their newly developed Concert Hall on The Concourse in the Chatswood city centre. Performing under the baton of Chief Conductor, Dr Nicholas Milton, the Willoughby Symphony will open the concert with Graeme Koehne’s thrilling Elevator Music (1997). Joining…
Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton this year celebrates 10 years at the helm of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra. He recently returned to Sydney after a stint in Europe. He talks, in his own words about his experiences in Europe. First, SoundsLikeSydney asked him what changes he had observed in the WSo over the past yen years. “I am…
Felix Mendelssohns’s most prolific output was not for orchestras, but for choirs and solo voices. A recent feature in Classic FM magazine estimates his orchestral works as comprising just 12 % of his opus whilst choral and vocal music represent the single largest genre at a sizeable 33%. Most of his best writing is said…