Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Historical research suggests that in Beethoven’s day the direction of the orchestra was usually shared by the first violinist and a keyboard player, even after conducting as a separate métier was well established...
Even in Australia it would be an unusual and demanding challenge to put together a ‘new’ orchestra, to rehearse and perform ‘from scratch’, such a demanding work. Add to that the language difficulties of combining orchestras from two different cultures, and it will be understood that the TSO party, and presumably their Chinese counterparts as well, were in a state of eager but suspenseful anticipation, before the beginning of the first of five combined rehearsals ...
200 years of music in the Farthest South of Humanness, a brief history.