(WAITLIST Free Event): Mid Semester Philharmonic Orchestra Concert | Brahms

FREE EVENT: Mid Semester Philharmonic Orchestra Concert | Brahms
Venue : Kenneth Myer Auditorium - Ground Floor
The Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street Southbank, VIC 3006
Date: Thursday 16th May 2024 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM AEST

Unfortunately this event sold out online before I got around to creating the Meetup Event to tell you guys about it (my apologies)
- I highly recommend signing up to Melbourne University's Conservatorium emailing list (link) so you get first dibs the moment they publish their concerts on Eventbrite

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The event has sold out online - but I have 2x spare tickets. 🙂

If you are interested and definitely 💯 coming to the event - do comment below.
And don't forget to have notifications for comments turned on - as I will reply you and await a second confirmatory reply from you, before allocating a ticket to you
(Please note that if you DM me.. but I don't reply you within 1 day = your profile's privacy settings have blocked me from contacting you directly. So I still recommend commenting below so we don't miss anything. 😅

. RSVPs on Meetup do not constitute a ticket.
. Free event but you need to visit the Main Organiser's website to book now or ASAP to assure a ticket.
. Main Organiser's website: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/philharmonic-orchestra-concert
. RSVPs on Meetup do not constitute a ticket.

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UPDATE: BEFORE you join the waitlist - Do read below
IF:
(1) you are available to join on late notice
(2) you have notifications for comments turned on.
(3) AND you comment below
(4) I will reply you and await a second confirmatory reply from you, before allocating a ticket to you =)

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The University of Melbourne
Philharmonic Orchestra Concert

The University of Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra will perform two works by Brahms at their first concert of 2024, opening with his Academic Festival Overture. In the Summer of 1880, Brahms reluctantly began writing a “thank you”, to the University of Breslau for offering him an honorary doctorate – initially, he simply wrote a letter but was swiftly told that a new composition would be more appropriate for such an honour. The composer (known to be a joker) added vulgar student drinking songs juxtaposed with music depicting pompous academics. It finishes with the celebrations of graduating students.

The concert will end with his Second Symphony. Brahms famously took 21 years to complete his First Symphony and only five months (in 1877) to write his second! The Second Symphony is sunny and cheery and yet (jokingly) he told his publisher “I’ve never written anything so melancholic…you won’t be able to bear it”. At the first performance, the critic Hanslick wrote “The Second Symphony shines, warming experts and the public alike…the work stands as proof that one can still write symphonies after Beethoven”.

PROGRAM
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2

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About this event
This event is booked out, but there is often a drop-off in attendance for our free events on the day of the performance.

If you arrive at the venue before the advertised start time and make yourself known to Front of House staff, in most instances we will be able to find a seat for you once audience members with tickets have been seated. Please note that entry without securing a ticket in advance cannot be guaranteed.

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ACCESSIBILITY
All venues at the Southbank campus are wheelchair accessible. To read more about access services available at our venues, please visit: https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/access-our-events

DISCLAIMER: while care is taken to ensure that the details on this Meetup Event is correct, we cannot guarantee that they are 100% accurate. So please refer back to the Main Organiser event's page linked above for the most up to date details.