WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER? In 2027, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra explores the many answers: love and friendship, belonging and imagination, resilience, discovery, hope and joy.
Few composers give us so many ways to explore those ideas as Beethoven. Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth will lead all nine of the composer’s symphonies across four concerts, tracing an extraordinary musical journey, culminating in the Ninth and its enduring call for human connection.
That sense of connection can be shaped by the place we experience music, too. Throughout the year, the orchestra heads beyond Adelaide Town Hall to some of South Australia’s most distinctive spaces, from the soaring interior of St Peter’s Cathedral to the intimate setting of UKARIA Cultural Centre. Each offers a different way to encounter the orchestra, with the space itself becoming part of the experience.
And sometimes, what brings us together is music we know and love. Ben Folds returns to Adelaide to perform with the ASO, while How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back bring their iconic scores to life alongside the films themselves. The Music of The Lord of the Rings takes audiences into the musical world of Middle-earth, with hosts from The Art of the Score podcast guiding the journey as the ASO performs the music live. The orchestra will also perform the music of Hollow Knight, the acclaimed video game created by Adelaide studio Team Cherry.
For Mark Wigglesworth, that shared experience is at the heart of what makes live music special. “You are as much part of the music as the notes themselves,” he says. Perhaps that is one of the simplest answers to the question of what brings us together.
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