In February, we invite you to indulge in a feel-good concert guaranteed to lift your spirits. Celebrating timeless beauty and energy, this is a favourites concert not to be missed.

Koehne gives you Forty Reasons to be Cheerful, while Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp is music to warm the soul. Hold on to your hat as 2024 Young Instrumentalist winner Eric Kim takes centre stage as the soloist in Sarasate’s dazzling Zigeunerweisen, a showpiece for violin and orchestra.

Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story is the vibrant finale, featuring all of your favourite moments from the smash-hit musical. The week ahead can wait. Treat yourself to a little slice of musical joy.

Program

• Saturday, 8 February 2025, 7:30pm
  Rossini Galop from Overture to William Tell
  Mozart Andantino from Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299
  Koehne Forty Reasons to be Cheerful
  Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op. 20
  Prokofiev Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet
  Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus
  Elgar Nimrod from Enigma Variations
  Tchaikovsky Pas de deux from Act II The Nutcracker
  Fauré Pavane, Op. 50
  Bernstein Symphonic Dances, from West Side Story
  Leonard Bernstein Overture to On the Town
  Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5
  
  Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)
  
  
• Saturday, 9 February 2025, 11:30am
  

  Rossini Galop from Overture to William Tell
  Mozart Andantino from Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299
  Koehne Forty Reasons to be Cheerful
  Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op. 20
  Prokofiev Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet
  Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus
  Elgar Nimrod from Enigma Variations
  Tchaikovsky Pas de deux from Act II The Nutcracker

  Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)