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NEWSLETTER FOR FRIENDS AND DONORS
JANUARY 2010
INAUGURATION NEWS
APO ORGAN CONCERT TO BE REPEATED!
Such is the demand for tickets, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra will repeat its concert with celebrity organist Thomas Trotter during the Town Hall organ’s inauguration week.
The scheduled concert on Thursday March 25– part of the orchestra’s subscription series – was all but sold out before bookings were opened to the general public.
The concert, featuring the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and Poulenc Organ Concerto, will be repeated at 8pm on Saturday
March 27.
Tickets for this concert are available from THE EDGE.
Phone THE EDGE ticketing 09 357 3355 or
visit www.buytickets.co.nz or
call at the box office in the Aotea Centre.
If you are a Town Hall Organ Donor you are entitled to a discount. Please respond to this e-newsletter by emailing
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if you wish to take advantage of this offer.
Don’t miss the chance to hear the first major concert using the restored organ. With its former power and grandeur now returned to the Town Hall you will hear how this grand organ measures up in its first great symphonic test!
OTHER INAUGURATION WEEK EVENTS
Sunday March 21, 4.30pm.
Inauguration and Civic Ceremony.
The combined forces of Viva Voce, Musica Sacra and The Graduate Choir, the Auckland Youth Orchestra and Solo Organ will celebrate the ‘birth’ of New Zealand’s largest and most up to date pipe organ.
Tickets: This event, although free, will be ticketed. Friends and Donors are entitled to preferential booking and will receive a letter from either the Auckland City Council or the Auckland Town Hall Organ Trust in the first week of February setting out the details.
Details will also be given concerning tickets for the following free event:
Sunday March 28, 2.30pm.
Thomas Trotter in a Celebrity Solo Recital.
The first recital on the restored instrument.
BBC Music Magazine rates Trotter as:
“one of today’s greatest living organists”.
It is now just eight weeks before a great event in New Zealand’s musical history.
Photo credits:
1, 3 & 5 Auckland Town Hall Organ Trust.
2. Adrian Mallock 4. Stefan Hilgendorf
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