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View all search resultsUnder the watchful eye of depictions of classical music’s greats on the walls of the concert hall, including Mozart, Bach, Handel, Schubert, Rachmaninoff et al, the combined orchestras served a splendid repast.
The Yogyakarta Royal Orchestra, under the Kridhamardawa Directorate General, will perform its State Sovereignty Day Concert on March 1 and 2, 2024, at the Aula Simfonia Kemayoran in Central Jakarta to commemorate the Battle of the 1st of March, 1949, which was designated State Sovereignty Day by Presidential Decree No. 2/2022.
This was a “revenge” event, as musical director and orchestra founder Grace Soedargo playfully called it. The more appropriate term, perhaps, is the settlement of a previous promise, as unwieldy as the phrase sounds. For the leisurely stroll through a gallery of musical treasures conducted this week by Henrik Hochschild from Leipzig, Germany, was payback for another event.
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