Kendall PhiloMusica

Sunday, November 2nd 2pm, Kendall School of Arts

The World of Yesterday

Join us for a special PhiloMusica Concert featuring two young virtuosi bringing the world of tomorrow and the world of yesterday to Kendall at once.

These artists of the future perform brilliantly works that diagnose a bigone age. The brilliant piano virtuoso Dono Ng returns to Kendall with Emerging Violin Star Antony Wang.

Antony Wang, violin

Dono Ng, piano

1 pm - The world of Yesterday (pre-concert talk by Prof. Dr. Goetz Richter AM).

The "world of Yesterday" refers to a novel by Stefan Zweig whose imagination captures the transition from an age of Empire to the horrors of mechanical warfare in the first world war. We explore how music reveals the sensibilities of a time that has already passed when it sounds ... or more accurately: when the bell tolls. Music and time (music and its time) shows itself as an endlessly fascinating topic.

2 pm Performance

M. Ravel, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales,
M. Ravel La Valse,
F. Kreisler/Rachmaninoff Liebesfreud & Liebesleid
N. Medtner, Sonata-Idyll
R. Strauss, Sonata for Violin and Piano Eflat major op 18
E. Ysaye, Solo Sonata op 27 No 6 in E major

Kendall National Violin Competition Story

The Kendall National Violin Competition has established itself as one of Australia’s foremost performance opportunities for young violinists. Past finalists and winners of the Kendall National Violin Competition have embarked on impressive careers and the Competition is proud to have encouraged these talented artists on their way.

The Kendall National Violin Competition is supported by many generous supporters of the Hastings, Camden Haven and Mid North Coast communities and is administered by an honorary management committee based in Kendall.

Please support the competition with your donation. The Kendall National Violin Competition is a registered charity and donations are fully tax deductible.

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