70 sound reasons to help TSO celebrate

TASMANIAN Symphony Orchestra fans keen to be part of the organisation’s 70th anniversary season can start planning their classical calendars for 2018, with tickets going on sale yesterday.

The orchestra will perform some of classical music’s most electrifying and accessible works in 2018, including Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Faure’s Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah.

The TSO will perform with several visiting artists for the first time, including pianists Steven Osborne, Nelson Freire, Simon Trpceski and Jayson Gillham; violinist Veronika Eberle; mandolin player Avi Avital; and conductors Sir Andrew Davis and Karina Canellakis.

The orchestra will also team up with Eskimo Joe, Katie Noonan, Michael Leunig and Greta Bradman during the 2018 season, which will also feature lots of music inspired by Shakespeare.

The special event Romeo Retold —a concert of works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Bernstein — will be held on October 10 to mark the orchestra’s 70th anniversary.

The TSO gave its first-ever concert on May 25, 1948, and two works from that concert — Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 — will be performed again next year.

For bookings, go to www.tso.com.au or phone 1800 001 190.