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NEWSLETTER 2
OCTOBER 2008
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Dear Friends,
Our second Newsletter comes as we are beginning to plan next year’s programmes and so we find ourselves reviewing the concerts we have shared with you so far. A
prominent feature of all the feedback we have had is the surprise and enjoyment our audiences feel in finding so many unknown musical treasures amongst late Romantic English music. We too have shared this feeling of discovery and excitement especially now as we rehearse the music of Charles Stanford who was the highly esteemed teacher of all the other English composers we are playing this year.
We hope you can join us for the final concert this year and share with us some more lush English Romanticism alongside Shostakovich’s soul-searching E minor Piano Trio. News about next year’s programmes will be revealed when we see you then.
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CONCERT 3
“IN REMEMBRANCE”
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BALLAN - 1st November - 4.00 pm
St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, Inglis St. ,Ballan
GEELONG - 2nd November - 3.00 pm
St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong
MELBOURNE - 9th November - 3.00pm
St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St., Melbourne
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PROGRAMME
STANFORD - Piano Trio no. 3 in A major (1918) IRELAND - Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor (1917) SHOSTAKOVICH - Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor (1944)
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Playing in Rebecca’s home town, Traralgon, to raise money for the Latrobe Valley Eisteddfod
Photo: Colin Mckeown
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MUSICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC SUCCESS
Trio Anima Mundi has now raised in excess of $6,000 for the charities supported by their performances. Melbourne’s August concert again received a generous review from music critic for “The Age”, Clive O’Connell who described the performance as giving “...an attractive realization of finely-spun passage-work allied with a driving melodic energy”.
The dream of Trio Anima Mundi is that audiences will continue to respond to this special mix of high quality music making and philanthropic outreach so that each concert will build on the last in creating opportunities for sharing great music while contributing to social justice.
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“In Remembrance” honours Remembrance Day and is dedicated to music influenced by the two World Wars in a programme which gives voice to loss, war and grief.
The first half of the programme is full of sensual and lyrical beauty. Stanford’s third trio is an elegy for lost friends, while Ireland poignantly describes the life of a soldier at the front in World War I. The second half of the concert features the magnificent second Piano Trio of Shostakovich; this most famous of trios is full of the despair and bleakness of Stalinist Russia in the 1940s whilst movingly paying homage to the grandeur of the human spirit.
Once again the proceeds of these concerts will be used to support a charity. In Geelong, money raised will go to a Water and Sanitation project in Papua New Guinea. Melbourne’s concert will support “Activate”, an organization which seeks to change the course of the lives of disadvantaged youth and in Ballan the money raised will go towards the re-development project of the Ballan Hospital
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MUSIC IN THE ROUND
Trio Anima Mundi at the end of a performance of Hurlstone’s Piano Trio during Music in the Round at which they were invited to play.
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TICKETS
Adults $30.00, Concession $15.00 (Ballan $20/$15)
Phone Bookings: 5368 2325
E-mail: info@trioanimamundi.com
Web-site: www.trioanimamundi.com
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