I took my 11 year old daughter to the MSO ears wide open at Hamer Hall on Tuesday 7th July. What an amazing event. The way that Richard Gill was able to bring the story of compostion alive was captivating to say the least.
I highly recommend anyone with an interst in music to go along to see Ears Wide Open next time around. It gives you the opportunity to see the construction, and in a way the deconstruction of a music peice.
The consumate professionals of the MSO played a piece of music, under the baton of Richard Gill who took us on a journey of how the piece was contstructed, with the musicians dutifully playing section by section the piece to us, as it's structure was explained. This then culmintaed in a second full hearing of the piece, at which my daughter was astounded at how different it sounded, as now her ears were wide open.
the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall @
- Melbourne @
- Tue 7 Jul 2009 @
Favourite moment: Richard Gill involved the audience - warmly, and made classical music available to the ears of all the audience, regardless of musical persuasion. @