A 600-strong audience was treated to a grand concert at the weekend by the combined forces of the three musical groups led by retiring maestro Adrian King – the Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra, Noosa Chorale, and the Sunshine Coast Choral Society.
Following masterful orchestral performances of Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue with piano soloist Theo Pike, the orchestra and choirs, including children from the Sunshine Beach State School, almost brought down the roof of the hall at St Andrew’s Anglican College Peregian Springs with their passionate and powerful performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Adrian King will retire at the end of the year, after conducting all three groups in their final performances of the year leading up to Christmas.
