Australian orchestra plays Carnegie Hall after sold-out Chicago concert

AN EVENING WITH THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

AUSTRALIA’S LEADING ORCHESTRA PERFORMS AT CARNEGIE HALL AFTER SOLD-OUT CHICAGO CONCERT

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrates contemporary Australian composers and orchestral classics in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall performance on October 20

Concertmaster Dale Barltrop directs chamber orchestra in Vine, Grandage, plus Schubert’s Symphony No.3 and Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri overture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Melbourne,  Australia, October 17, 2019) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall after almost 50 years, performing on Sunday October 20 at 7.30pm in Zankel Hall.

This will be the final performance in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's 2019 USA tour, following a sold-out concert at the Symphony Center, Chicago and performances in Washington D.C. and Worcester (MA).

The intimate concert in Zankel Hall will begin with the popular overture to Rossini’s 1813 hit opera L’Italiana in Algeri and close with Schubert’s boisterous 3^rd Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing as a chamber orchestra.

At the heart of the program there will be two contemporary Australian works, All the World’s a Stage by Iain Grandage (b: 1970) and Smith’s Alchemy  by Carl Vine AO (b: 1954).

Australia’s first professional orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has been the sound of the city of Melbourne since 1906. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was the first Australian orchestra to perform overseas (1965) and the first to debut at Carnegie Hall (1970).

Program information
Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 7:30p.m. 
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

An Evening with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 
Dale Barltrop, Play-Conduct violin 

ROSSINI L’Italiana in Algeri (Overture) 
GRANDAGE All the World’s a Stage 
VINE Smith’s Alchemy 
SCHUBERT Symphony No.3

Ticket information
Tickets, priced $35 and $45, are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, carnegiehall.org.

Acknowledgements
This performance is part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 US Tour, celebrating more than a century of friendship between Australia and the United States of America. The tour will bring Melbourne’s finest musicians to Chicago, Washington D.C., Worcester (MA) and New York. 

The MSO’s US Tour is proudly supported by the Australian Embassy Washington D.C., Australia Council for the Arts, the Pratt Foundation, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Emirates, Northern Trust, Lendlease, Harold Mitchell AC, the Ullmer Family Foundation, Ken Ong OAM and Glenn Sedgwick.