MAHLER’S FIFTH
Metro Series Concert #4

Chris Williams opens BPO’s final concert of the year with the Concerto for Didgeridoo by Queensland composer Sean O’Boyle. The work makes use of the improvisational aspect of traditional didgeridoo playing, and was created in partnership with William Barton using the elements of Earth, Water, Wind and Fire as a foundation for each movement.

From the opening notes to the final coda, Mahler’s Fifth is a symphony that speaks directly to the soul. Experience “this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound…” that Mahler despaired of, writing and rewriting it for a decade while desperately striving to portray something he saw as an inexorable part of his soul, laid bare to the world. 

SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 3PM
OLD MUSEUM CONCERT HALL, BOWEN HILLS

Conductor: Peter Luff
Didgeridoo Soloist: Chris Williams

PROGRAM:

Sean O’Boyle| Concerto for Didgeridoo
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 5