"Living Toys: Brilliantly orchestrated, this was daredevil composing: in turns raucous, funny and luxuriously spacious.” Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“With James MacMillan, Judith Weir, Julian Anderson and Jonathan Dove, Adès is one of the five greatest living British composers.” The Times (UK)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
USA/Australia
Welcome to a playground of musical riches, as the ASO takes on four of the most compelling contemporary classicists.
The first treasure is an explosion of ideas in Living Toys, the acclaimed toy-box fantasia of precocious British poet-composer, Thomas Adès. The scene switches to Argentina for Osvaldo Golijov’s fiery, passionate Last Round, based on the tempestuous life of tango great, Astor Piazzolla. Add to that two Australian works: Hindson’s Comin’Right Atcha, inspired by the funk music of James Brown, and Kats-Chernin’s offbeat Russian romance, Zoom and Zip and audiences are set for an evening of trail-blazing musical interrogation.
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jonathan Stockhammer
Program
Thomas Adès
Living Toys
Elena Kats-Chernin
Zoom and Zip
Osvaldo Golijov
Last Round
Matthew Hindson
Comin’ Right Atcha
Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast live by ABC Classic FM.
Biography
Johnathan Stockhammer
Conductor
Jonathan Stockhammer is one of the most versatile conductors of the younger generation and combines a broad experience in the field of contemporary music with a unique and impassioned approach to the classical symphonic and opera repertoire.
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