Sinister & sprightly.

The dead rise for a dance-off, the saxophone gets to shine and deals are made with devil.

Conducted by Eivind Aadland and featuring Jabra Latham on saxophone. TSO Viola Will Newbery returns as your 6pm host.

Skeletons usually come out at midnight. But these friendly remains will make an exception when they join us at 6pm. In Danse macabre, the dead rise from their graves for an epic dance-off. Eivind Aadland conducts this wicked music from French composer Saint-Saëns.

We’re closer to home when Jabra Latham breathes new life into the classical saxophone. The Tasmanian virtuoso knows the wind instrument like the back of his hand, and he wrote a concerto to showcase how beautifully the saxophone can sing. See and hear it glisten on our Federation Concert Hall stage.

If you’re taking a drink into the hall, you can raise a glass to the elixir of youth in Gounod’s Faust. This ballet music is about a man who gets a second chance at life after making a pact with the devil.

Watch the livestream on Thursday 13 Mar 2025 6pm
Available on demand Thursday 27 March until Thursday 24 April

PROGRAM
Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre
Gounod, Ballet music from Faust
Latham, Saxophone Concerto *World Premiere & Commission

Latham’s Saxophone Concerto was commissioned for the TSO by a collective of private donors.

MUSICIANS
Conductor: Eivind Aadland
Saxophone: Jabra Latham
Host: William Newbery
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra 

Federation Concert Hall, Nipaluna / Hobart