The Hollywood Connection at Barwon Park

Name: The Hollywood Connection at Barwon Park
Start: 2024-11-10T14:00:00+11:00
End: 2024-11-10T14:00:00+11:00
Location: Barwon Park

Join Vivien Hamilton - mezzo-soprano, Josephine Vains - cello, Robert Chamberlain - piano, for a reprise of their popular Hollywood-inspired recital from April 2024, this time in the elegant National Trust mansion Barwon Park at Winchelsea, just past Geelong.

Enjoy fabulous works for various combinations of voice, cello and piano by Hollywood musical luminaries including André Previn, Erich Korngold, Leonard Bernstein, Nino Rota, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow) plus up-and-coming Australian composer Luke Severn, in a program ranging from one of the most moving song-cycles of the 20th century to dynamic show-tunes from Hollywood musicals!

Ticket prices ($35/$45/$55) include the recital, viewing of the mansion and a country-style afternoon tea after the recital with the performers and other audience members. Don’t miss this special opportunity to experience this espcially appealing recital program in the splendour of the Barwon Park mansion!

Sunday November 10, 2024 at 2.00pm

Vivien Hamilton (mezzo-soprano), Josephine Vains (cello), Robert Chamberlain (piano)
Programme includes:

Luke Severn - When the World Was Young (2018) for cello & piano
Erich Korngold - Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31 (voice & piano)
André Previn - Four Songs for Soprano, Cello and Piano (1994)
Nino Rota - Allegro danzante arr. for cello & piano
George Gershwin - Preludes for Piano
André Previn - Vocalise, for voice, cello & piano (1995)
A selection of Hollywood show and movie tunes by Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow), Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and André Previn - in original form and in arrangement.