Freddy Kempf Plays Tchaikovsky
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Maestro Series presents Freddy Kempf Plays Tchaikovsky at the QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane. This was my first hearing of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. It was also my first visit to the QPAC Concert Hall. The program began with Peter Sculthorpe’s EARTH CRY, in celebration of his 80th birthday. Originally written in 1988, the version played for this concert was a revised score, prepared in 1999. In the original Sculthorpe wrote “perhaps we now need to attune ourselves to this continent, to listen to the cry of the earth, as the aborigines have done for…