Any chance to play a Beethoven symphony is something I jump on. I've played 5 (3,4,5,6,7) and few twice. But I love the repertoire, even if not played too well. Just doing a great work is a huge learning experience for classical player and Beethoven is obviously amongst the best. Excuse my older-time loves. I also prefer Perugino to Pollock but maybe I shouldn't admit it! Anyway, this was Maruki playing in a very satisfying acoustic space at the Lyneham High School Performing Arts Centre with a string of film themes and B7 managed into the theme, given the delicious second movement is in common film use. The other themes were from 2001: a space odyssey - Also sprach Zarathustra and the Blue Danube - and some John Williams from Star wars and How to train your dragon and Prokofiev from his Romeo and Juliet ballet and Pirates of the Caribbean. No way have I seen Dragon or Pirates, but the music was pretty welcoming. And B7, of course, is a work of genius, the blockbuster of the day ... perhaps along with Darth Varder's theme. Good fun and always a pleasure to play works of genius. And many thanks to MD/conductor Kristen Simpson who is leaving Canberra and so had to hand in her notional Maruki baton. Always very capable and very inviting. Kristen, it was a pleasure to play with you.
Maruki Community Orchestra performed Beethoven and various film musics at Lyneham High School Performing Arts Centre under Kristen Simpson (conductor, MD).
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