Beethoven PASTORAL SYMPHONY
For the second successive year the Amatori Orchestra with Ian Knowles (Director) are returning to The Music Estuary with a Beethoven Symphony.
This years performance features Beethoven’s Symphony No.6 in F major, named ‘Pastoral Symphony’ . As a typically programmatic work each movement describes a scene of country life and includes musical depictions such as bird song and a storm.
Join us in this celebration of Beethoven with one of his masterpieces that continues to capture audiences around the world.
AMATORI ORCHESTRA
IAN KNOWLES, DIRECTOR
DATE & TIME
SUNDAY, 3 August
3:00 – 4:30 PM
TICKETS
GENERAL $30
CONCESSION $25
Under 18 Free
PROGRAM
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Symphony ‘Pastoral’ No.6, F-major, op. 68
I. Allegro ma non toppo “Joyful feelings upon arriving in the country”
II. Andante molto mosso “Scene by the brook”
III. Allegro “Peasant Merrymaking”
IV. Allegro “Thunderstorm”
V. Allegretto “The shepherd’s song after the storm”
‘The Pitjantjatjara showed me that to sing and dance the lives of one’s ancestors and to pass these forms on to others is a meaningful way to live a life’.
‘By virtue of the singers, players and audiences who share this music appreciation, I have a very happy life, much of it as a community musician.’
IAN KNOWLES – DIRECTOR
Ian played piano from the age of seven, gained a B.Mus. in music Education at Adelaide Conservatorium and studied cello for many years afterwards to pursue chamber music, especially the large string quartet repertoire.
Following an opportunity to work on a cross cultural music program via Adelaide University’s Dept. Ethnomusicology, he spent many years learning to sing and dance Pitjantjatjara corroborees.
However, after many years learning from his Pitjantjajtara teachers, it became imperative to find his own totemic ancestors and thence he plunged back into the culture through which one can grow most deeply, the culture of one’s birth and training, which meant Bach, Beethoven and that tradition of the most demanding and rewarding of Western music masters.
Hence the starting of the Amatori singing group and later Amatori orchestra in Mullumbimby, with the two aims of providing an opportunity for singers and players to enter more deeply into the better known works of the top composers, and to provide local audiences with opportunities to hear this wonderful music live.