Incorporating Adelaide youth ensembles — AdYO, Adsi & AYS

Adelaide Youth Orchestra

eNews Bulletin

November 2008

ISSN 1836-0009

The Adelaide Youth Orchestra Inc

ABN 53 037 804 043

GPO Box 2121 Adelaide SA 5001

T: (08) 8233 6256

E: adyo@aso.com.au

W: www.adyo.com.au

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Adelaide Youth Orchestra Inc News

1. Welcome
2. 2009 Auditions
3. AdSI & AYS Christmas Concert
4. Alumni
5. Membership
6. Like to support AdYO
7. CDs

Competition – Rhythm Is It!

Special Offer – Grainger Quartet’s Night at the Opera

Forthcoming Concerts

WELCOME

Welcome to Adelaide Youth Orchestra’s eNews Bulletin. Each month an eNews bulletin will be sent out to its orchestral members and friends. If you have something you like included in it, please send the information to: adyo@aso.com.au

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2009 Auditions

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: THIS FRIDAY!

Adelaide Youth Orchestra is seeking new players

in 2009 for its three orchestras

• Adelaide Youth Strings – 8-12years
• Adelaide Youth Sinfonia – 8-25 years
• Adelaide Youth Orchestra – 14-25 years

Audition dates: 28-30 November 2008

Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide

Click here to download a brochure or application form.

To obtain an audition booklet visit AdYO’s website, ring 8233 6256 or send an email to: adyo@aso.com.au

ADELAIDE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC PRESENT CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Adelaide Youth Sinfonia, Adelaide Youth Strings and AdYO’s horn masterclass program will perform in AdYO’s 2008 Christmas Concert under the direction of Martin Butler, Joanna Drimatis and Howard Parkinson

SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER, 4.00PM

WALFORD SCHOOL HALL, 316 UNLEY ROAD

TICKETS: Adult $10, Concession $8, Children $5.

Bookings: AdYO 8233 6256, adyo@aso.com.au

Or click here to download a ticket order form.

ALUMNI

The Adelaide Youth Orchestra would like to keep in touch with our past members and to hear what they’re now doing. It’s free to join and by joining it will help us to grow our sphere of valued supporters. Click here to join.

MEMBERSHIP

Did you know that people who are ex-orchestral members or supporters of Adelaide Youth Orchestra Inc can also be members? For ex-orchestral members and their parents, it costs $15 a years, while for supporting members it costs $40 a year. If you’d like to become a member, please ring AdYO on 8233 6256 and we’ll send you out a form.

LIKE TO SUPPORT ADYO?

Want to help young musicians discover the wonders of orchestral music? If so, why not make a donation. Any donation over $2 is tax-deductible.

Thanks to Our Community we now can take donations online. Click here to donate online.

CDs

AdYO has a number of CDs for sale of its past concerts, which we are selling at the bargain price of $10 which includes postage and handling.

CDs we have for sale are:

• Rhapsody featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Debussy and Franck
• Tutti featuring works by Vivaldi, Bartok, Durante, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Liszt
• Fall into Winter featuring works by Elgar, Sibelius and Meyer
• Spring into Summer featuring works by Sibelius, Meyer, Koehne, Tchaikosvky, Respighi and Strauss
• New Worlds featuring works by Arnold, Mozart and Dvorak
• Tempo featuring works by Saint-Saens, Liebermann and Tchaikovsky

To order a CD, please send a letter advising which CDs you want with your name and address, with payment by cheque, money order or credit card.

Competition

RHYTHM IS IT!

You Can Change Your Life In A Dance Class. This Box Office hit is about 250 kids/teenagers who had never danced or listened to classical music when they faced their biggest challenge: to perform Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ with Sir Simon Rattle and the legendary Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra! This award winning & inspiring film about empowerment through dance and music is one of Germany’s most successful documentaries ever.

* “Mesmerizing!” (WASHINGTON POST)

* “This documentary will be a big hit!” (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD)

* “Critics choice! **** four stars ” (THE INDEPENDENT, UK)

* “A wonderfully inspiring film!” (LA TIMES, USA)

Thanks to the Australian distributor, we have 2 DVDs to win. To enter send us your name and address and the answer to the question, who wrote ‘The Rite of Spring’? to: adyo@aso.com.au Prize draw: Friday 7 November

Special Offer

Grainger Quartet’s final concert for 2008 is Night at the Opera which includes works by Berg, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi.  This moving concert celebrates several of the most loved composers of opera on Saturday November 8 at Elder Hall.

Grainger Quartet is offering a special discount to Adelaide Youth Orchestra members:

Adult tickets at $47.30 (that’s a saving of $10) and Student tickets at only $12 (usually $20.30) 

Take advantage of this special offer when booking through BASS; either by phone on 131 246 or in person at any BASS outlet.  Quote the special code word MEMBER when making your booking.

For further concert details visit: www.graingerquartet.com

Book your tickets soon…. this is your last chance to see Grainger Quartet!

Forthcoming Concerts

ABC CLASSIC FM SUNDAY LIVE

FLUTE, VIOLA & HARP

A delightful mix of music for flute, viola and harp performed by Geoffrey Collins, Keith Crellin and Susanne Handel. Geoffrey Collins is one of Australia’s most distinguished flautists. Keith Crellin is Head of Strings and Conductor in Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide. Their program includes Debussy’s enchanting Sonata for flute, viola and harp.

SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2008, 2.20PM

STUDIO 520, 85 MAIN NORTH EAST ROAD, COLLINSWOOD

FREE

Australian Chamber Orchestra present Euphoric Beethoven 8

Australian Chamber Orchestra Lead Violinist Richard Tognetti and Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko Valve showcase their precious Guarneri instruments in Brahms’ final orchestral work, the exuberant Double Concerto. ‘The slow movement is an ardent, ecstatic song, the finale a joyous, folksy celebration’ – The Guardian.

In an unmissable display of symphonic brilliance, the concert opens with Prokofiev’s amusing modern take on a Haydn-style symphony and comes to a rousing conclusion with Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.

TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 8PM

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

TICKETS from $36.30  BASS 131 246

ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TRIUMPHANT SPIRIT

Polish pianist Ewa Kupiec is one of the fastest rising stars in the international piano firmament. One critic proclaimed her as “made for the music of Schumann”. Experience her unique artistry in the lyrical and elegant Schumann Piano Concerto. Arvo Volmer and the ASO then bring down the curtain on 2008, with Prokofiev’s multi-faceted masterpiece, his Fifth Symphony, which fuses urbane wit with ultimate nobility. It is one of the select few 20th Century symphonies which have earned classic status, an exhilarating conclusion to the 2008 Season.

Friday 21 November at 8.00pm

Saturday 22 November at 6:30pm

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL THEATRE

TICKETS from $44.50

ELDERHALL evenings

Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Keith Crellin
Soloist Catherine Vaughan, Clarinet

Beethoven Egmont Overture
Mozart Clarinet Concerto K.622
Sibelius Symphony No.2 op.43

Beethoven’s breathtaking Egmont, a performance of one of Australia’s most loved concertos by rising star Catherine Vaughan, and the stirring, stark beauty, deep passions and melancholy of Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony bring an extraordinary year of music making to its finale!

SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 6.30PM

ELDER HALL

TICKETS from $14.00 Bookings: 8303 5925