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The Hollywood Connection at Como House & Garden (SOLD OUT)

Name: The Hollywood Connection at Como House & Garden
Start: 2024-04-21T14:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-04-21T16:30:00+10:00
Location: Como House and Garden

Join Vivien Hamilton - mezzo-soprano, Josephine Vains - cello, Robert Chamberlain - piano, for a Hollywood-inspired recital in the elegant yet intimate Ballroom at Como House and Garden, still furnished with family heirlooms from the Armytage family, who lived there for nearly a century.

Enjoy fabulous works for various combinations of voice, cello and piano by André Previn, Erich Korngold, Leonard Bernstein, Nino Rota, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow) and Australian composer Luke Severn, as you glimpse the privileged lifestyle of the former occupants of this stunning National Trust mansion in South Yarra.

Choose from two performances, one at 2pm, the second at 4.30pm, with interval refreshments served on the Eastern Verandah by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.

Sunday April 21, 2024 at 2.00pm or at 4.30pm

Vivien Hamilton (mezzo-soprano), Josephine Vains (cello), Robert Chamberlain (piano)
Programme includes:

Luke Severn - When the World Was Young (2018) for cello & piano
Erich Korngold - Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31 (voice & piano)
André Previn - Four Songs for Soprano, Cello and Piano (1994)
André Previn - Vocalise, for voice, cello & piano (2002)
Nino Rota - Allegro danzante arr. for cello & piano
A selection of Hollywood show and movie tunes by Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow), Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and André Previn - in original form and in arrangement.

(Images of Como House and Garden courtesy of the National Trust - Victoria)