Tim and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra reunited for a haunting performance of Neil Finn’s classic hit, Don’t Dream It’s Over for MND Australia. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s The Fading Symphony:
Please donate $5/£5/€5 at thefadingsymphony.com/donate and watch Tim and the orchestra heal and play on to a stunning hope filled crescendo! (Following donation, you’ll be able to watch both parts over and over, if you wish – on the same device and browser).
Thank you! if you’ve donated and/or shared the video or this website: thefadingsymphony.com already. You’ve helped to raise awareness and funds: for research into finding a cure, to support people living with MND and for global projects fighting ALS/MND. Please continue, if you can. There will be a full update in the new year. (more…)
Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) has announced that Tim will be joining the stellar line-up of Western Australian artists at Home, a huge, free, one-off outdoor theatre spectacular, reflecting on what the Western Australian landscape and concept of ‘home’ means to its artists.
Home is a narrative driven concert, celebrating the beauty of the Western Australian landscape, culture and community.
Directed by Nigel Jamieson in collaboration with Noongar elder and artist Dr Richard Walley, the performance will feature an outstanding roll call of Western Australia’s most acclaimed and imaginative artists and creatives including Grace Barbé • John Butler • The Drones • Robert Drewe • Wayne Freer • Guy Ghouse • Gina Williams • Iain Grandage • Kavisha Mazzella • Lucky Oceans • The Panics • Pigram Brothers • Kim Scott • Shaun Tan • The Triffids • Voyces • The Waifs • Dave Warner • Western Australian Youth Orchestra • Tim Winton and more …
Lotterywest Festival Opening Home 7.30pm on 13th February, 2016. (90 minutes, no interval) Langley Park, East Perth Tickets: FREE EVENT
Tim:“I can’t wait to come home for Home. It is incredibly exciting and moving to be involved in a home-grown event on this awesome scale, to be working with the likes of Nigel Jamieson, my old friend Iain Grandage, and the great Richard Walley, and to have the privilege of sharing a stage with such an extraordinary line-up of West Australian performers and artists.”
For more information and updates including, location and travel guidance, head to the event page on the PIAF website here.
Hopefully you’ve already spotted that Tim and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) have been working with MND Australia on The Fading Symphony, a campaign to raise awareness and funds: for research into finding a cure, to support people living with MND and for global projects fighting ALS/MND. (If you’ve not yet seen the video then you might like to pop over here to watch it before reading on).
Motor neurone disease (MND), sometimes also referred to as ALS, is a progressive terminal neurological disease with no known cure or effective treatment. Each day in Australia two people die from and two people are diagnosed with MND, which can strike men or women, young or old, from any country, race or demographic. People living with the disease progressively lose the use of their limbs and the ability to speak, swallow and breathe whilst their mind and senses usually remain intact.
The Fading Symphony sees Tim and the SSO, at the Sydney Recital Hall, performing a moving rendition of Neil Finn’s Crowded House hit Don’t Dream It’s Over. As they play, they poignantly illustrate the progression of the debilitating symptoms; highlighting the physical impacts metaphorically through deteriorating performances by the artists. As Tim and the orchestra fall silent a donation is requested, following which the orchestra comes back to life and plays on, flourishing to an uplifting crescendo.
Tim: “I love playing with the SSO, I have aways loved this song, and I loved this idea the minute it was presented to me. Music has the capacity to make us emotionally connect to stories like nothing else. Except, perhaps, silence.”
Please donate $5 (or £s or €s!) at thefadingsymphony.com/donate to help the fight against MND and watch Tim and the orchestra heal and play on! (more…)
Tim recently reunited with the fabulous Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the Sydney Recital Hall, for a haunting performance of Neil Finn’s classic hit, Don’t Dream It’s Over. Here’s what happened:
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Remember, if you’d like to support these charities more than once you can gift the song on iTunes like this.
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