2008 Concert - April event
50th Anniversary Concert
St James Church, Woburn Road, Central Lower
Hutt
Saturday, 19th April, 7.30 pm
Brief review
Our 50th Anniversary concert on April 19 was called "Delicious Sounds" - from the 'Recipe' premiere. Soloist Yoshiko Tsuruta played a fabulous Marimba Concerto . The audience really loved it and were rewarded with an exquisite encore that brought out the swell and reverberation of the marimba as well as its percussive qualities.
The World Premiere of Claire
Cowan's
"Recipe for Disaster" was a delight! The two conductors acted out
competing opposites. Stuart Douglas wore a conservative conductor's
suit
and an equally conservative chef's hat. Brent Stewart was dressed for
youth, topping off with a cap facing back like a streetwise 14 year-old
cruising for trouble. The two orchestral halves threw genre at each
other, interrupted rudely, and still played the pieces as an integrated
work, as Cowan (pictured at left) had artfully designed.
Photos from the concert.
Iain Matcham (violinist) took a lovely set of
photos both at the
rehearsal in the afternoon and at the
concert that evening. Iain has posted the photos up on Picasa. You can see all of the photos there.
Here are a few of those close-ups.
Supported
by the Hutt City Council
©2008
Anton Erasmuson.