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The White Hat Guide to the Melbourne Arts Centre
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Melbourne Arts Centre
St Kilda Road
Southgate
Tel: (03) 9281 8000 |
The Melbourne Arts Centre (known as the Victorian Arts Centre until 2003) is the major performing arts venue in Melbourne. The complex consists of a major concert hall and theatre as well as a number of smaller performance and gallery spaces, cafes, restaurants and other facilities. It is adjacent to the National Gallery of Victoria (International Collection) and nearby is Federation Square with the NGV Australian Collection, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and BMW Edge performing space. Also in the Southbank precinct is the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and the Malthouse Theatre. Thus the Arts Centre forms a hub for much of the larger scale arts activities in Melbourne. The complex consists of two major buildings - one housing the theatres and the other housing the concert hall. The State Theatre is the major venue for the Melbourne-based Australian Ballet and Melbourne Theatre Company. It is also the major venue used by Opera Australia when they are in Melbourne. The Melbourne Concert Hall was renamed Hamer Hall in 2004 to honour the contribution Sir Rupert Hamer made to the arts in Victoria. It is the major venue used by the Melbourne Symphony. It is also the major venue used by the Australian Chamber Orchestra when they are in Melbourne.
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Great Romantics
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and
Lead Violin perform:
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2.30pm, Sunday 14th June & 8pm Monday 15th June |
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Enquiries: 1800 444 444 |
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Melbourne Symphony Great Classics 3 - Victory
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) and
Matthew Barley (cello) perform:
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2pm Sat 20th June & 6.30pm Mon 22nd June 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - The Dance of Life
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) and
Silver Garburg Piano Duo perform:
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8pm 25th & 26th June, 2pm 27th June 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - White Heat
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Viktoria Mullova (violin) and Ilan
Volkov conductor perform:
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8pm 16th & 17th July, 2pm 18th July 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Great Classics 4 - Lighting the Darkness
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Ilan Volkov (conductor) perform:
- Mahler Symphony
No.9 in D major
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2pm Sat 25th July & 6.30pm Mon 27th July 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Resonance - Masterpieces for String Orchestra
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra augmented by talented young musicians from
their Emerging Artists Program, with Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead
Violin perform:
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2.30pm Sun 9 Aug & 8pm Mon 10 Aug 2009 |
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Enquiries: 1800 444 444 |
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Melbourne Symphony Great Classics 5 - Davis conducts Elgar
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Davis (conductor) and Jonathan
Biss (piano) perform:
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2pm Sat 22nd Aug & 6.30pm Mon 24th Aug 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - Twilight
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Davis (conductor) and Christine
Brewer (soprano) perform:
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8pm 27th & 28th August, 2pm 29th August 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Marwood, Mozart & Mendelssohn
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Anthony Marwood Guest Director perform:
- Vine New Work [world premiere]
- Mozart
Serenata Notturna, K.239
- Kinsella Prelude and Toccata [Australian premiere]
- Mendelssohn
Sinfonia No.12
- Schumann
Violin Concerto [transcribed from the Cello Concerto]
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2.30pm Sun 13 Sep & 8pm Mon 14 Sep 2009 |
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Enquiries: 1800 444 444 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Paul Daniel (conductor) perform:
- Bartók Music
for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
- Kats-Chernin Re-Collecting Astoroids
- Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 (Pathetique)
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8pm 1st & 2nd Oct, 2pm 3rd Oct 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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The Girl With the Golden Flute
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and
Lead Violin, and Sharon Bezaly Flute perform:
- Handel Concerto
Grosso, Op.6 No.7
- Vasks New Work [world premiere, 2009 Barbara Blackman commission]
- Serebrier Flute Concerto [world premiere] OR Vine Pipe
Dreams
- Izarra Pitangus Sulphuratus Flute Concerto [Australian
premiere]
- Tchaikovsky
Serenade for strings
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2.30pm, Sunday 25th October 2009 |
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Enquiries: 1800 444 444 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - Starring Sumi Jo
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Alexander Shelley (conductor) and Sumi
Jo (soprano) perform:
- Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Overture
- Gounod Romeo
and Juliet: Je veux vivre
- Berlioz Romeo
and Juliet: Romeo alone; Festivities at Capulet's
- Debussy
Prélude ŕ "L'Aprčs-midi d'un Faune"
- Meyerbeer
L'etoile du Nord: C'est bien l'air
- Rossini The
Barber of Seville: Overture
- Donizetti
Linda di Chamounix: O luce di quest'anima
- Puccini Gianni
Schicci: O mio babbino caro
- Respighi The Fountains of Rome
- Verdi La
Traviata: 'Sempre libera'
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8pm 12th, 13th & 14th November 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Great Classics 6 - Revolutions
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Oleg Caetani (conductor) Stephen
Kovacevich (piano) perform:
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2pm Sat 28th Nov & 6.30pm Mon 30th Nov 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Melbourne Symphony Master Series - The Slender Thread
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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Oleg Caetani (conductor), John Wegner
(narrator) and the MSO Chorus perform:
- Schubert
Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 (Unfinished)
- Schoenberg
A Survivor from Warsaw
- Brahms Symphony
No.2 in D, Op.73
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8pm 3rd & 4th Dec; 2pm 5th Dec 2009 |
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre
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Enquiries: 1300 136 166 |
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Australian Chamber Orchestra with Barry Humphries
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and
Lead Violin, and Barry Humphries,
Presenter and voice perform music from early 20th Century America and Europe
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8pm, Wednesday 16th December 2009 |
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Enquiries: 1800 444 444 |
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Audio descriptions for the vision impaired are available at selected performances in this theatre. For more information phone (03) 9864 9222 or go to www.vionaustralia.org.au |
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Sunday Market at the Arts Centre
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An undercover and outdoor market with a wide range of arts and crafts. |
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10am-5pm (6pm during summer), Sundays |
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The complex also contains the smaller Fairfax Theatre.
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Jeffrey
Smart's Container Train in Landscape
was commissioned in 1983 to hang in the foyer of the Fairfax Theatre of
the Melbourne Arts
Centre. The painting comes into view at the top of the entrance
stairs, and by cunning use of forced perspective the train appears to
remain at the same distance as the viewer descends the stairs. It is
painted on five panels. As a consummate craftsman, Smart integrates the
painting with the colours and columns of the foyer, and as a consummate
artist uses numbers of visual devices to extract beauty form a seemingly
unpromising subject.
Those who know the painting well may notice that the
above image (from the website of the organisation selling the print) is
in fact a mirror image of the original. Never fear - if you buy the
print it is the right way round. |
This is one of the buildings which will be open to the public for
'Melbourne Open House'
On Sunday 19 July, Melbourne Open House (MOH) will hold its second annual open
house with free of charge access to explore more than 30 public and private
spaces, many of which are usually inaccessible to the public.Closer to the event
White Hat will publish a more detailed guide to the buildings in our
free weekly Melbourne newsletter.
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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