Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope series steps off the beaten path to see what the musical world looks like in all its colour, rhythm and excitement.

Three-concert packageORFour-Concert Package

There are great names and some vibrant, eclectic programming, mixing it up with pop ballads, jazz, and classics gone wild.

Shaped in collaboration with James Morrison, this is the series where Sydney’s symphony orchestra lets its hair down. And you can too.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL FRIDAY OR SATURDAY | 8PM

Autumn Sampler Packs Available Online
To add either of the following concerts at the special price of $50 each (C-res, maximum of 4 tickets), to your three concert package, contact the box office on 02 8215 4600 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm).

Rodgers & Hammerstein on Stage and Screen | Tchaikovsky Spectacular

Best of Bernstein

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Discover the genius of Bernstein on stage and in the concert hall with music from Candide and West Side Story, and his Age of Anxiety symphony.

For most of us, Leonard Bernstein’s genius lives on the stage – in the dazzling optimism of his music for Candide and the urban cool of West Side Story.

But there’s another side to Lenny: the “serious” composer who wanted to write the Great American Symphony. So how did he go? The Age of Anxiety gives a clue: it’s called a symphony but it looks like a piano concerto and its narrative structure is set by Auden’s poem.

This is a symphony that encompasses a quest for identity and the glitter of the jazz age. Lenny was no ordinary musician, and in this concert David Robertson gives us the best of all possible Bernstein.

BERNSTEIN
Candide: Overture and Suite
The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No.2)
West Side Story: Suite for voices and orchestra

David Robertson conductor
Orli Shaham piano and a cast of singers

Pre-concert talk by Robert Murray at 7.15pm in the Northern Foyer.

Rhapsody In Blue

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Enter the jazz age – the Paris of Josephine Baker and Picasso, the New York of Dorothy Parker and Irving Berlin, the smooth sound of the clarinet, the smoky trumpet.

Mix it all up with folk mythology, authentic jazz, and real Parisian taxi horns and you get the heady impression of music at its most vital.

The 1920s were an amazing era of cross-fertilisation and mutual inspiration: as Gershwin was putting the concert hall into jazz with his Rhapsody in Blue, Darius Milhaud on the other side of the Atlantic was capturing the chaos and steamy vitality of Harlem for the ballet theatre.

Where did the bold experiments take us? Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein and John Adams complete the itinerary: New York, Paris, and the world!

ADAMS The Chairman Dances – Foxtrot for orchestra
MILHAUD The Creation of the World
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
BERNSTEIN Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
ELLINGTON Harlem

Kristjan Järvi conductor
Michael Kieran Harvey piano
Francesco Celata clarinet