Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Showcase Series 2008
Offering diversity across music genres - the Showcase Series continues to take the orchestra and its audience on a journey exploring popular music. Featuring the music of Deep Purple and Pink Floyd and guest artists Kurt Elling and James Morrison - it's all about the music.
Kurt Elling & the ASO
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Saturday 26 April at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
Kurt Elling is the pre-eminent young male jazz singer of today. With multiple Grammy nominations and seven acclaimed albums to his credit, Elling is an artist, poet and interpreter extraordinaire. With a rich textured voice Kurt Elling infuses his lyrics with passion, humour and a startling intellectual depth, often incorporating images and references from writers such as Rilke and Proust, into his work.
Elling is renowned for pushing the musical boundaries of jazz exploring the emotional convictions of music both in the recording studio and through commanding live performances. His new album, Night Moves has been met with open arms by the jazz community and Elling fans. "Night Moves... important, and entertaining.... moving furiously toward pure creativity...is clearly one of the more important jazz works of the last decade" (CD review.com) Kurt Elling's Adelaide Symphony Orchestra concert appearance marks a rare opportunity to witness this incredible talent with an orchestra and his band of esteemed musicians.
Supported by KPMG.
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ASO Goes to the Movies
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Friday 30 May at 8pm (Finish approx. 10pm)
Saturday 31 May at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
| Conductor | Brett Kelly |
For more than a hundred years, the movies have shaped our imagination and inspired our emotions. Throughout their existence, the synergy of music with the images on the screen, the endless variety of story-telling and the magical charm of the great actors has created wonderful memories for all of us. The soundtrack of our lives has been composed by some of the best composers of the era: Korngold, Chaplin, Morricone, John Barry, Elmer Bernstein and John Williams, to name a few. And all of these composers will be featured in this sparkling concert event. For this, our first celebration of movie music in four years, we have drawn together the perfect blend of the greatest musical moments from the movies.
For ASO Goes to the movies Rachael Beck will perform a selection of songs from the rich repertoire of songs from the Movies, ranging from the era of classical Hollywood to recent hits. The Trolley Song and Somewhere over the Rainbow have become classics which immediately conjure the rich imagery and associations of the classic movies from which they were born. In more recent times, songs like The Rose and Beauty and the Beast have established themselves as standards of the modern era, and to add to the evening's spirit of musical pleasure, Rachael will also give a new rendition of the raunchy Moulin Rouge hit, Voulez-vous couchez avec moi.
In association with the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Tribute to Duke Ellington
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Thursday 9 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
Friday 10 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
| Trumpet | James Morrison |
| Piano | Joe Chindamo |
| Bass | Phil Stack |
| Drums | John Morrison |
Duke Ellington stands as one of the musical giants of the 20th Century, a musician who created many of the classics of the jazz repertoire, and confidently blended jazz with the classical tradition to give it new energy and inspiration. Australia's jazz legends James Morrison and Joe Chindamo join the ASO to present the quintessential celebration of the music of the one and only Duke, with specially-commissioned arrangements of evergreen favourites and a selection of Ellington's own orchestral music.
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ASO Plays Pink Floyd
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Friday 17 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
Saturday 18 October at 8.00pm (Finish approx. 10.00pm)
Following three sold out nights in 2006, the highly innovative ASO Plays Pink Floyd returns with a brand new production which revisits the glory of the original but features more new songs. Built on the ASO's highly successful seasons of Zeppelin Flies Again and ASO Plays Queen, the concert will combine the full power of the ASO with rock musicians and singers to perform Floyd classics including Another Brick in the Wall, Comfortably Numb, Learning to Fly and Wish You Were Here on stage at the Festival Theatre. Make no excuses... don't miss this concert.
Supported by Boileau Business Solutions
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