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Coming up tomorrow on Music in Melbourne - 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne Pat Burns from Lyric Opera of Melbourne will join Tim Hannah in the studio at 11am to talk about 'Unlucky Love: The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks'.
Rick Prakhoff from Melbourne Bach Choir Inc will be popping in around 11.30am to chat about their Easter concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre.
And at 11.45am, Artistic Director, Katie Yap will be discussing the upcoming Music, She Wrote festival, which opens next week.
On Saturday 22 May at 8pm, Rick Prakhoff conducts the Melbourne Bach Choir Inc in the premiere performances of Calvin Bowman’s "Pater Noster" and two "Marian Motets," with favourite works by Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner and Brahms. Supported by a trombone ensemble and Calvin Bowman on organ, in the sublime acoustic of St Andrew’s Brighton. Live audience and live-streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. Bookings at
www.mbc.asn.au
Adrian Tamburini, Zelman Symphony and the Melbourne Bach Choir Inc premiere Luke Styles’ No Friend but the Mountains, A Symphonic Song Cycle at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl this Sunday.
The composer wrote about his work, which draws on Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning book, in our January–February magazine.
Luke Styles writes about working with Behrouz Boochani's words from the award-winning autobiographical book 'No Friend But the Mountains'. The premiere of the new song cycle will take place at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on 21 March, featuring the Zelman Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Bach Choir, bass baritone soloist Adrian Tamburini and conductor Rick Prakhoff.
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/no-friend-but-the-mountains-a-symphonic-song-cycle Zelman Symphony Melbourne Bach Choir Inc
“A dramatic song cycle… that underpins the juxtaposition of his incarceration with the freedom of the natural world that he can view from the compound..”
In the March issue of On Air magazine, we explore Zelman Symphony’s upcoming premiere of a new symphonic work by Luke Styles, based on Behrouz Boochani’s book "No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison"—and hear Rick Prakhoff, Conductor's perspective on presenting a musical depiction of this harrowing and hopeful story.
**Special Offer: See the world premiere of this work at 5pm on Sunday 21 March, ‘Live at the Bowl’ from your own private Lawn Deck - pay for 4 tickets and take up to 6 people. Tickets:
https://liveatthebowl.com.au/no-friend-but-the-mountains/
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Photo: Author Behrouz Boochani, composer Luke Styles and conductor Rick Prakhoff; Zelman Symphony with Guest Concertmaster Wilma Smith and Bass-Baritone Soloist Adrian Tamburini (photos supplied)
Zelman Symphony Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Bach Choir Inc #liveatthebowl #NoFriendButTheMountains Behrouz Boochani Adrian Tamburini
Zelman Symphony Orchestra, Arts Centre Melbourne and The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas cordially invite you to experience
No Friend but the Mountains, A Symphonic Song Cycle
DATE: Sunday 21 March 2021, 5.00pm
VENUE: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Kings Domain Gardens, Linlithgow Ave, Melbourne VIC 3000
Presented by Zelman Symphony, Arts Centre Melbourne and The Wheeler Centre
World Premiere of No Friend but the Mountains: A Symphonic Song Cycle
By Australian Composer Luke Styles, Text by Behrouz Boochani
Thumbed on a phone, smuggled out in thousands of text messages. The near impossibility of its existence. On Nauru and Manus Island, they live in a zoo of cruelty. No Friend but the Mountains, Behrouz Boochani's multi-award winning book which chronicles the perilous journeys of asylum seekers and their forced detention on Manus Island, is the inspiration for this Symphonic Song Cycle by prolific Australian composer, Luke Styles.
Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, writer and film-maker, penned his book in secret in Farsi on a mobile phone as a series of hundreds of text messages. He opened up the hidden world of detention, shone a light on the conditions endured by detainees on Manus and exposed a brutal system ostensibly designed to deter other asylum seekers while breaking those caught in it. To open the event, Behrouz Boochani will appear in conversation via video reflecting on this new adaptation of his story.
Artists
Rick Prakhoff, Conductor
Adrian Tamburini – bass-baritone
Melbourne Bach Choir Inc
Wilma Smith – guest concertmaster
Susan Pierotti – concertmaster
Creative Team
Luke Styles – composer
Behrouz Boochani – librettist
Omid Tofighian – translator and collaborator
Program
Behrouz Boochani – Video Interview with Rafael Epstein
Luke Styles – No Friend but the Mountains: A Symphonic Song Cycle
Tickets:
https://liveatthebowl.com.au/no-friend-but-the-mountains/
Lawn decks seating up to 6 people are now generously discounted. Group bookings only.
Buy online or call Ticketek Australia 132849
Bohemian Rhapsody Weekly Magazine is proudly covering the concert (media Rachel Sandey and Sylvester Kroyherr) Please stay tuned for more details
special thanks: @GeorgeDeutsch
Ever wondered what a socially distanced choir rehearsal looks like? Melbourne Bach Choir is rehearsing for No Friend but the Mountains: A Symphonic Song Cycle, featuring the Choir with Zelman Symphony Orchestra at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on 21 March. Join us!
https://liveatthebowl.com.au/no-friend-but-the-mountains #liveatthebowl #NoFriendButTheMountains Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Bach Choir Inc
ARTISTS OF WILLS: Belinda Prakoff and Rick Prakhoff, Conductor are an extremely talented husband and wife duo based in Brunswick East.
Belinda is an operatic mezzo-soprano, who has sung with Opera Australia in Melbourne as a professional chorus member for the past 20 years as well as with Victorian Opera and Melbourne Opera.
By day, Belinda works in the tertiary education sector in the Research and Innovation portfolio at RMIT University, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Melbourne.
Rick is a professional conductor and music teacher with an extensive symphonic, operatic, musical theatre and choral repertoire, having worked with many professional and amateur companies throughout Australia. Rick is the current Artistic Director of the Zelman Symphony and the Melbourne Bach Choir Inc, and before turning to conducting, trained as a classical guitarist and operatic baritone.
Like Belinda, Rick also works in tertiary education as a sessional Lecturer in Conducting at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and directs the Conservatorium Choir, while also employed as administrative staff in curriculum development at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Zelman Symphony concert #VerdiRequiem n association with
Melbourne Bach Choir Inc took place on SUNDAY, September 8 at 2.30pm at the Melbourne City Town Hall
http://zelmansymphony.org.au/Concerts/8September2019
please read the review Natasha Lukin is sharing to day with all our readers:
http://bohemianrhapsodyclub.weebly.com/travelling.html
Bohemian Rhapsody Weekly Magazine expresses its special thanks to the managers and organisers of this grand event and personally to George Deutsch and Holly Hayes for the invite and opportunity to cover the concert as well as to Natasha for her coverage.
Surviving my very first Verdi Requiem in the middle of Norma tech week ... life goal achieved!
I absolutely ADORE singing this piece, and could not have wished for a warmer, more generous or talented group of colleagues to take my maiden voyage with.
Zelman Symphony Melbourne Bach Choir Inc Helena Dix Soprano Adrian Tamburini Rick Prakhoff, Conductor
What a joy to be singing both Norma AND the Verdi Requiem with this glorious woman!
Helena Dix Soprano has a voice of utter glory ... and a personality of utter hilarity.
Limited tickets still available for Sunday afternoon’s performance at Melbourne Town Hall.
The piece is extraordinary - I want to sing it forever!
Zelman Symphony Melbourne Bach Choir Inc
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