Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Showcase Series 2009
Offering diversity across music genres - the Showcase Series continues to take the orchestra and its audiences on a journey exploring popular music. Featuring international living legends Roberta Flack and Engelbert Humperdinck, popular Australian singer-songwriters Lior and Ben Lee and themed musical tributes from ABBA to Broadway, every taste is catered for in this dynamic series.
Roberta Flack the ASO
Adelaide Convention Centre
Saturday 7 February at 8.00pm
More than just a popular songstress, Roberta Flack is one of the most sophisticated and enchanting voices in popular music. Celebrated for such chart-topping hits as Killing Me Softly, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Jesse she will make her first ever appearance in Adelaide with the ASO. Four Grammy Awards, 30 internationally charted singles, a place in Hollywood's Walk of Fame ... the mere statistics and accolades are legendary but what is even more miraculous is how her unique style effortlessly transcends fads and fickleness and is joyfully rediscovered by successive generations. Audiences laugh, cry and invariably call for more.
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Lior and the ASO
Adelaide Botanic Gardens
North Terrace and Plane Tree Drive: Gates open 6:00pm
Saturday 14 February at 7.30pm
| Conductor | Ben Northey |
The beautiful Adelaide Botanic Gardens are the perfect setting for this Valentine's Day concert featuring Lior, the singer who leapt to fame with his 2005 debut album Autumn Flow which won multiple accolades as Triple J Radio's Album of the Year. One track The Old Love was voted among Triple J's Hottest 100. His subsequent albums Corner of an Endless Road and Doorways of My Mind have similarly captivated audiences. Let Lior romance you and someone you love with his blend of lyricism and melody. Bring your own picnic hamper or take advantage of the onsite catering available.
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ASO On Broadway
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Saturday 7 March at 8:00pm
| Conductor | Guy Noble |
| Vocals | Trisha Crowe |
| Vocals | Chloë Dallimore |
| Vocals | Michael Falzon |
| Vocals | Todd McKenney |
Some of the biggest names in Australian show business join with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra to sing up a storm in a salute to Broadway. This footlight and fanfares, all-stops-out occasion runs the gamut of immortal musical showstoppers - the popular Broadway musicals from all eras. Relish the great music of Cole Porter, Lerner and Lowe, Rogers and Hammerstein alongside Lloyd-Webber, Peter Allen and Kander & Ebb all performed to the highest level with an outstanding cast of singers under the stylish direction of Guy Noble.
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Ben Lee and the ASO
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Friday 13 March at 8.00pm
Saturday 14 March at 8.00pm
| Conductor | Brett Kelly |
His 2005 album Awake is the New Sleep went double Platinum and won a prestigious four Aria Awards, reaffirming Ben Lee as one of the most exciting and talented songwriters and performers in Australia today. Since then he has had many singles reach the coveted Triple J Hottest 100 song list. He performed his hit single We're All In This Together at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Few other artists have penetrated the mysteries of the Generation Y zeitgeist with such quirky charisma, disarming candour and approachability. Ben Lee's symphony show features a set of superb arrangements which add a new dimension to his sophisticated songs and is set to be a life-enhancing experience for audiences.
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ASO Plays ABBA
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Friday 22 May at 8.00pm
Saturday 23 May at 8.00pm
| Conductor | Brett Kelly |
| Vocal Ensemble | Rajaton |
ABBA's music is timeless, loved by all generations from baby-boomers to today's children. Release your inner dancing queen when sensational Finnish group Rajaton bursts onto the Adelaide scene with their own jubilant interpretation of ABBA's classic hits. These six, classically trained singers dazzle with their fusion of elegance and virtuosity in everything from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary pop and now they bring their international hit show to Australia. One of the world's great a-cappella ensembles, their orchestral ABBA show with symphony orchestra is regarded as the best version in Scandinavia today ... and the Scandinavians know their ABBA almost as well as Australians do!
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Paul Grabowsky and Friends
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Saturday 1 August at 8.00pm
| Conductor & Piano | Paul Grabowsky |
| Vocals | Katie Noonan |
| Vocals & Trumpet | Vince Jones |
Experience the unforgettable synergy as three of Australian's supreme musicians come together with the ASO in an eclectic program embracing a rich array of jazz classics and popular hits. The stunningly beautiful voice of Katie Noonan takes centre stage in a partnership with two of Australia's jazz legends in the multi-talented Paul Grabowsky and Vince Jones. Musical barriers dissolve as these three artists put their inimitable stamp on music from Bernstein to the Beatles and beyond, adding new expression to the standards and unlocking the beauty within popular numbers. One critic described their music-making as a 'tonic for the soul' and this new collaboration between three of Australia's most celebrated musicians will prove a veritable magical elixir.
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ASO In Vienna
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Friday 25 September at 8.00pm
Saturday 26 September at 8.00pm
| Conductor | Nicholas Milton |
No other city on earth has given the world music of such infectious charm as Vienna. The greatness of its musical tradition is given expression in a rich variety of classics and also in a wondrous tradition of popular music, represented with the same spirited sensibility and genius for melody. The masters of this popular tradition were, of course, the Strauss family, the Kings of the Waltz and Polka. In this concert, the charming Nicholas Milton makes his very welcome return to Adelaide from his busy international career. The ASO program will celebrate the wondrous creations of Johann Strauss and other members of the Strauss family, together with Franz Lehar, von Suppe and others who helped create the wonderful Viennese popular tradition.
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Engelbert Humperdinck and the ASO
Adelaide Festival Theatre
Thursday 10 December at 8:00pm
Hail the king of Romance! Engelbert Humperdinck, the singer whose 1967 recording of Release Me kept The Beatles out of the top spot in the charts for 56 weeks and sold 85,000 copies every day at its peak, is coming. They swooned then at his romantic ballads and 40 years on, they're still swooning. Engelbert's prodigious career is still a work in progress and he's constantly reinventing himself. In his own words, he can 'still hit notes a bank wouldn't cash'. Sit back and let the old favourites work their magic.
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