Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

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The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a symphony orchestra based in Adelaide , South Australia . The main venue for the orchestra is Adelaide Town Hall . Other venues include the Elder Hall of the University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Center . The ASO is also responsible for the musical support of the Australian Ballet , the State Opera of South Australia and is the main ensemble of the Adelaide Festival .

history

In 1936 the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was formed from the 50 musicians in the South Australian Orchestra - with William Cade as chief conductor and with financial support from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . In 1949 the 55-member orchestra was reformed and operated under the old name of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra with Henry Krips at the helm. In 1975 it was renamed again to the name Adelaide Symphony Orchestra , which is still valid today . Elyakum Shapirra , Piero Gamba , Albert Rosen , Nicholas Braithwaite and David Porcelijn have served as chief conductors since then . The chief conductor, who did most of his work for the orchestra, was Arvo Volmer , who led the orchestra from 2004 to 2013, but who will remain with the ASO as the first guest conductor and artistic director.

In 2007 the orchestra collaborated with the hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods for their album The Hard Road Restrung . Another collaboration with the group came about in 2015 when the ASO recorded the album Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung with 32 members of the orchestra and the 20-member Adelaide Chamber Singers Choir .

One of the orchestra's major productions was participation in the staging of the entire Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner in 1998. Initially, this production was erroneously referred to as the first performance of the complete works in Australia, but the Ring had its first performance in August 1913 at Her Majesty's Theater in Melbourne.

At the suggestion of the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Mike Rann and with financial support from the government of the Australian state of South Australia , the ASO was commissioned in 2009 to stage the world premiere of Gerard Brophy's The Blue Thread , inspired by the Murray River , in the context of climate change . The premiere took place on November 27, 2010 at Adelaide Town Hall. This order of the Rann administration followed by two more jobs to the ASO: a memorial concert for the cricketer Don Bradman with the work Our Don of Natalie Williams , which premiered in August 2014 and on 22 April 2015, the world premiere of the Requiem Towards First Light by Iain Grandage on the anniversary of the ANZAC landing on Gallipoli .

The orchestra currently has 75 permanent musicians (as of 2020). In 2016 Nicholas Carter took over as Australia's youngest chief conductor, a position that he held until 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Symphony Orchestra of 50 Performers Formed . In: The News , May 19, 1936, p. 1 u. 6. Accessed April 4, 2017.  p. 6 lists the orchestra members - with the exception of the harpist and timpani, which were only announced later.
  2. ^ Graham Strahle: Volmer's vivid delivery a firecracker farewell. In: The Australian . November 15, 2013, archived from the original on November 18, 2013 .;
  3. ^ The Hard Road Restrung. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017 ; accessed on April 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Hilltop Hoods announce new Restrung album, national tour, drop 'Higher'. In: triple j . December 3, 2015, archived from the original on December 6, 2015 .;
  5. ↑ Quote: “ The Ring was first performed in Australia at Her Majesty's Theater in Melbourne in August 1913. ” ( Das Rheingold on August 19; Die Walküre on August 22; Siegfried on August 25; Gotterdämmerung on August 29). In: Erik Irvin : Dictionary of the Australian Theater 1788-1914. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney 1985, pp. 245-246.
  6. ^ Gerard Brophy: Represented Artist. Australian Music Center, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Samela Harris: Don't call me a greenie. In: Adelaide Advertiser November 25, 2015.
  8. ^ Australian Broadcast Highlights, The Blue Thread. In: ABC , December 7, 2010.
  9. ^ Gordon Forester: Our Don Review-Donald Bradman's Symphonic Tribute Hits for Six . In: The Guardian , August 15, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2017. 
  10. ^ Towards First Light in: Australian Music Center
  11. ↑ Annual Report. (PDF) In: aso.com. 2015, p. 5 , accessed on February 20, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ Meet the Orchestra at aso.com.au , accessed February 20, 2020
  13. ^ Johnny von Eine: A symphony to say goodbye: Australia's youngest conductor leaves the ASO. In: CityMag. July 11, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 .