In association with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Friends of Music organise pre-concert lectures before the KZNPO concerts of the season. Three Thursday night symphony concerts are still to come in the Spring Season of its World Symphony Series and three more pre-concert lectures.
The lectures are given in the Royal Hotel, Durban at 18h15 and end at 19h00, in good time for those attending to walk to the Durban City Hall for the concert beginning at 19h30. These talks have proved highly popular with concertgoers. The purpose is to introduce the compositions being performed that night and thus increase the enjoyment of those attending.
The speakers for the remaining lectures are: Ted Brien on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 in D major (October 21); Cecile Levin on Haydn’s Symphony No. 19 in D major, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor and Mozart’s Symphony No 40 in G minor (October 28), and Michael Green on Offenbach’s Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor (November 4).
Tickets for the lectures are R30 each and include tea, coffee and sandwiches, which are available from 17h45.