A metropolitan miscellany

A metropolitan miscellany

  A diverse programme of rich melodies and harmonies launches the 2012 season for the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Grace Williams. Pablo De Sarasate’s irresistible single movement gypsy themed Zigeunerweisen opens  the programme featuring violinist Dan Russell. Antonín Dvořák’s 5 movement Czech Suite continues the east European mood, followed by the shimmering Pavane by Gabriel Faure and…

The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra opens its 2012 season

The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra opens its 2012 season

The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams celebrates it first concerts for 2012 this weekend with a performance in Balmain on Saturday night, and one in North Sydney on Sunday afternoon. The Principal Clarinet in the MCO, Andrew Doyle will be the soloist in Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No 1, in F minor opus 73 (1811) in a classical programme which also…

The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra performs symphonies of mozart and bizet, aged 17.

The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra performs symphonies of mozart and bizet, aged 17.

Take your mind back to the opening scenes of the movie ‘Amadeus” and its electrifying music –  Mozart’s Symphony No 25 in G minor, K 183. The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra under the baton of its Chief Conductor Sarah – Grace Williams performs this symphony, along with the effervescent Holberg Suite by Grieg and Bizet’s Symphony…