7:30PM Saturday 5 December, Elder Hall, University of Adelaide
Conductor - Timothy Frahn & Benjamin Wohlfeil

william schuman — chester overture (1956)
jodie blackshaw — twist (2013)
aaron copland — quiet city (1941/1992)
gustav holst - hammersmith (1930)
martin ellerby — paris sketches (1994)

from the murray to the thames, a selection of symphonic wind classics inspired by twisting rivers & cosmopolitan cities

Rivers don't travel in straight lines. Neither does this programme.
AWO closes its 2026 season with five works spanning post-war America, fog-bound London, and the backstreets of Paris. It opens with Schuman's Chester Overture, propulsive and confident, a tune from the American Revolution made entirely his own. Jodie Blackshaw's Twist follows: restless, shape-shifting, the kind of music that keeps you leaning forward.
The second half turns inward. Copland's Quiet City is among the most achingly beautiful things he ever wrote, a trumpet player haunted by the city he left behind. Holst's Hammersmith is stranger still, a portrait of a working-class London suburb that never quite resolves, and that he considered his finest work. Martin Ellerby closes the year with Paris Sketches, five impressions of the city, ending with warmth, wit, and a little swagger.

Adult $35 | Concession $25 | Child $20 | Family $80