Event listing: Jazz Trumpet meets the Orchestra with James Morrison | Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Thu 7 Mar 2013 at 18:30

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Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Programme

Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956)	High Art - Concerto for jazz trumpet
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Symphonic Dances, Op.45

Performers

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Kristjan Järvi	Conductor
James Morrison	Trumpet

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Why Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances triumphed in 2023

Tristan Labouret, 9th January

The work most frequently performed in concert in 2023, Rachmaninov’s masterpiece owes its popularity to specific circumstances, but also to much deeper reasons.

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Jazz trumpet meets the orchestra with the Sydney Symphony

Oliver Brett, 8th March

For a composer who embraces the “popular” in music, using the subtitle High Art for his trumpet concerto is clearly a provocative but bold statement. Australian composer Graham Koehne has quoted Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, commenting: “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is”.

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