All women focus for Early Spring Season: Playhouse Opera:
Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 19h00.
To honour Women’s Month, the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra is hosting two concerts as an Early Spring Season both of which feature a women conductor and a woman soloist, the second of which will be on Thursday August 29, in the Playhouse Opera.
The internationally acclaimed Panamanian American maestra Kalena Bovell conducts the second, and closing, concert of the season. She opens her programme with Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, a popular work for string orchestra, which takes its name from St Pauls Girls School in London – one of the many pieces he wrote for the school’s students.
Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara, a much-admired figure with South African audiences, returns to wow her admirers performing Saint-Saëns’ glittering Piano Concerto No 2. Composed in 1868, it is the most popular of the composer’s five piano concertos.
The second half of the programme comprises Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony which draws on a number of older musical traditions.
For those who prefer not to self-drive to town for the evening KZN Symphony Season concerts, there are buses from Caister Lodge (R60 ret / dep 18h20); Westville Senior (R80 ret / dep 18h10; St Agnes Kloof (R100 ret / dep 17h50); Grace Church Umhlanga (R100 / dep 18h10). Book through Quicket / subscribers book through KZNPO offices.
KZN Philharmonic Season tickets, and bookings for individual concerts, are available at Quicket outlets. For more information call 031 369 9438, email info@kznphil.org.za or visit www.kznphil.org.za
Alternatively, click on the KZNPO advert to the right-hand side of this article which will link you to the orchestra’s website.
Programme:
Gustav Holst: St Paul Suit, Op.29, No.2
Camille Saint-Saens: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in g minor,
Op.22
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.5 in D Major, Op.107
‘Reformation’
Concert Tickets: Quicket
Park and Ride Tickets: Quicket
There is NO morning rehearsal.
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