Zelman Symphony capacity audiences of Mahler's epic Eighth Symphony - the "Symphony of a Thousand" - at the Melbourne Town Hall. In what was believed to be "a first" for an Australian Community Orchestra, the performances involved over 580 performers including an augmented Zelman Symphony of some 125 players led by Guest Concertmaster, Wilma Smith, Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), and featuring many guest principal players from the MSO and other top orchestras and music institutions. David Macfarlane played the magnificent organ, a 370 voice choir was formed from nine community choirs, and an 80 voice children's choir involved students
Symphony No. 3 (Myaskovsky) perhaps completely at least from the front. While Myaskovsky fought at the front during World War I, the message reached him that the conductors Aslanov (who had already premiered the first symphony) and Alexander Siloti were interested in the score of the third symphony. With this symphony, Myaskovsky's nationalistic attitude was made clear. Symphony No. 3 (Myaskovsky) Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 15 in 1914. It is in two movements: It is dedicated to Boris Asafyev. The third symphony was the last that Myaskovsky wrote before the outbreak of the First World War. The