Music Matinee Newsletter

Music Matinee Inc Newsletter November 27, 2024

Dear Friends of Music Matinee,  

Well what an exciting three weeks we’ve had with simply wonderful music and our first opera performance. We wish to extend our thanks to Olive Cullen, Charlotte Goode, Jasmine Arthur for their wonderful singing and Dean Sky-Lewis for his accompanying not forgetting the special direction of Sophie McGetrick which made it all so special.  

Just so you may all catch your breath our next concert is on Tuesday 10Th December at 1.00 pm at The Scots’ Church. As this is our Christmas theme concert and last for the year we expect many people so would ask you to come a little early if possible. 

The Victorian College of the Arts secondary College will present this  concert with Dermot Tutty as Choral Director.  

The concert will commence with the VCASS Junior Choir accompanied by Alexandros Papatsonis with a bracket of loved Christmas Carols and uplifting songs.

An Australian perspective follows as Leonardo Hawco cheers us with Percy Grainger.

Music Matinee’s 2024 VCASS scholar,Violinist Poppy Savage , plays Bach’s Allemande.  

VCASS Junior Piano Trio, Nami  Anny, and Alexandros will thrill us with Freddy Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody and then the Junior String Quartet, Petra, Victoria ,Yan and Anny play Mozart’s Divertimento. 

They finish with another bracket from the Junior Choir accompanied by the Hopkins String Quartet of your favourite Festive Season Music .  

Our thanks in advance to all the staff and students of VCASS whose wonderful musicality we have all come to admire so much over the years for putting together this most wonderful concert as such a fitting finale to our concert series for 2024. 

Full details of the program are on our website. 

We look forward to seeing them and all of you again in 2025, our next scheduled concert is February 4th at 1.00. Until then may you and your families have a safe and peaceful Festive Season and a great New Year.

Your Music Matinee Team