London Calling

London Calling

Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s ‘London Calling’ : Saturday 11 June, 5pm and Sunday 12 June, 3pm, King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre

Now in his second year as the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, London-based Simon Over returns to conduct a programme which has many associations with London. Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream is based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name, and it provides an atmospheric opening. Closing the concert is Haydn’s final symphony, composed while he lived in London. It is said that the final movement’s melody is both a traditional Croatian folk tune and a London street seller’s cry. This is an elegant, majestic and sophisticated symphony, and amply demonstrates why Haydn was known as the ‘father of the symphony’.

London-based Kiwi violinist Natalia Lomeiko (who was the winner of the second Michael Hill International Violin Competition) returns to perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto, a concerto which is popular in concert halls around the world.

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