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| Repetore for the tour includes pieces by Australian composers Alan John, Matthew Hindson, Peter Sculthorpe, and Percy Granger. Also some standard orchestral favourites by composers such as Borodin and Wagner. Additonally, some smaller chamber groups made up of members of the orchestra are going to perform various repetore in smaller venues. The main two pieces the orchestra is to play are Australian works, perhaps the most important of these is Alan John's "The Eighth Wonder" This is an opera about the Sydney Opera house. It's beginnings, it's building, and the struggle of the archetect to strive for perfection against the adversity of polotics and Australian attitudes. One performance of this will be in a building which was designed by the same archetect that designed the Sydney Opera House. The Violin Concerto of Matthew Hindson was commissioned for the Sydney Youth Orchestra this year and is for large symphony orchestra and Solo Violinist with an amplified violin. This piece is in 3 movements with poetic titles. "Wind Turbine on Kurragong Island", "Westaway", and "Grand Final Day". It is a lively and young piece which is both demanding and exciting. |
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| Flight 1 Sydney-London via Bangkok |
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| YSSY-VTBD-EGLL |
| Flight 2 London to Denmark (Copenhagen) |
| EGLL-EKCH |
| Sydney Youth Orchestra Denmark Tour The Unofficial Site. |
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| July 5 - July 19 in Denmark with the Sydney Youth Orchestra |
| Over the next month or 3, this page will come to include such things as travel details (approximate) places the tour will visit, places the orchestra will perform and the repetore the orchestra will play. It will then include links so that all you aviation minded people can take a look at the standard routes the aircraft take, and hopefully I will be able to include photos here if my friend Matt Bailey is so kind as to take some. Also I will add a page dealing with my simulation of the airborne part of the tours, with a Sydney-Bangkok-Heatrow-Copenhagen flight to be conducted online the Satnet with Real time Air Traffic Controll. This page will take the form of a walkthrough of a possible cockpit scenario of the entire flight (hopefully to and from) as simulated by myself. Finally if I may include an interview with one of the musitians who went away with the orchestra to see what the highlights of the trip were for them. Disclamer: This website is in no way affiliated with the SYO association and no money is being made with this website. |
| Enter the Aviation and Flight planning area of the SYO tour site HERE |
| Friday July 6: Yesterday the SYO left Sydney on British Airways flight BA010 at 15:00, arriving at 05:30 Heathrow. only 2 hours between this flight and the next to Copenhagen with a long busride to top it off... A total of around 30 hours of travelling time. |