Philharmonic Orchestra

In the second concert of the 100 Years Later trilogy, The Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Stravinsky's popular ballet music for Petrushka - a brilliant drama of love and death involving three puppets in a Russian fairground. In addition, The Philharmonic Chamber Choir will present a tapestry of Russian folksongs, including those found in Petrushka.

In 1942, Igor Stravinsky grabbed a fistful of chiselled melodies, poured them a cocktail of intricate rhythmic pulses, and added a dash of elegant, dance-like episodes. The result was his most colourful, yet difficult works for string orchestra – the Concerto in D for Strings. In contrast, Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments and the Symphony in Three Movements are both works etched on astringent ironies.

Join The Philharmonic Orchestra on a journey with three 20th-century classics for a dose of high-spirited humour and seductive nostalgia.

World Premiere of "AFTERIGOR" Commissioned By TPO

100 years ago in 1910, Stravinsky shot to fame with the brilliant Firebird. It was the beginning of a journey in which every tomorrow brought forth new intellectual craft -the1911 multi-layered puppet wizardry of Petrushka, and then the 1913 pagan revolution of The Rite of Spring - these are the ensorcelled creatures that Lim Yau and The Philharmonic Orchestra together with narrator William Ledbetter will awaken in 100 Years Later and set against these giants, a newly commissioned work by a Singapore composer: Emily Koh's After Igor.

Served with lucidity.

Brahms Tonight! brings together The Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Lim Yau, with actor and musician William Ledbetter, for a collaborative, interactive and entertaining study of the Brahms 1st Symphony followed immediately by a complete performance of this masterwork. A concert experience for the modern ear.