Meet the Music: Pictures at an Exhibition
Years 9-12
Dates & Key Information
Friday 27 June 2025
11am at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
Ticket price: $9
Our low ticket price is thanks to the support of an anonymous donor.
Duration: approx. 1 hour, no interval
Meet the Music Series
Limited tickets available!
The MSO’s popular Meet the Music Series for Schools is an exciting array of incredible performers and much-loved orchestral repertoire. With six concerts to choose from there is something to inspire everyone, including a new relaxed performance designed to be a comfortable place for first-time concert goers as well as audience members with autism, a disability or sensory sensitivity.
Each concert in this series will be accompanied by a digital pre-concert talk with James Le Fevre, Head of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS), to help prepare students for the performance.
Program
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition
A vast palette of symphonic colour
Experience Mussorgsky’s vivid musical translation of watercolours and drawings by the composer’s friend, Viktor Hartmann. Mussorgsky’s work was later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, who added a vast palette of symphonic colour when he orchestrated the suite, further adding to the evocative depictions of Parisian gardens, Roman catacombs and the majestic Great Gate of Kiev.
Duration: approx. 1 hour, no interval
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín conductor