DR JOHN FERGUSON CONDUCTS AS THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND SOLOISTS PERFORM HUBLER ’ S CONCERTO FOR FOUR HORNS
BELOW MIDDLE : PRO MUSICA PERFORMING SCHUBERT ’ S 5TH SYMPHONY
BELOW RIGHT : DAVID MUSK CONDUCTS THE SYMPHONIC WIND
KHACHATURIAN IN SUMMER
and theatre work . He is the regular concertmaster of Pro Musica . Their performance of the Bach concerto was a sheer delight .
The remaining work of the concert was the delightful Symphony No 5 by Schubert . It was indeed a lovely concert , enjoyed by a substantial audience .
The final concert of the year was the annual Summer Prom . Initiated in 1991 , the Prom is always held on the last Tuesday of the school year . It opened with the Symphonic Wind conducted by David Musk . A fun program of works followed , which included Leroy Anderson ’ s Christmas Festival and Music from Gladiator by Hans Zimmer . Ben Castle then directed the Academy Strings through the hauntingly beautiful adagietto from Mahler ’ s 5th Symphony . He followed this with the allegro from Mendelssohn ’ s String Symphony No 7 . It was an ambitious program that the boys rose to with aplomb .
As always , the concert concluded with the Symphony Orchestra . Geoff Liu , L . Mus . A . ( Dist .) ( then Year 11 ), performed the electrifying and dazzlingly virtuosic third movement from the violin concerto by Khachaturian , an exceptionally fluent and musical performance taken at a breathtaking speed .
This was followed by a remarkable Concerto for Four Horns by Heinrich Hübler . We performed the first movement , with soloists Daniel Wang ( L . Mus . A . Dist .) ( then Year 8 ), Aaron Zhang ( then Year 11 ), Joshua Deng ( then Year 9 ) and Joshua Song ( then Year 7 ). It was an unusual work , and the boys gave a brilliant performance .
We encourage composers at Scotch , and Alec Cheong ( Year 12 at the time ), had composed a work for orchestra called Ascension . It was a most worthy piece for full orchestra , and the performers enjoyed bringing this quality work from the written notes to a live performance .
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