A mild night under the stars brought 5000 people to City Park for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's annual event.
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The 2019 Symphony Under the Stars saw a new ticketing process introduced for the free event, which the TSO's marketing and communications director Samuel Cairnduff said had worked.
"We've performed in the park many times, but because the event has been growing every year, we've decided to introduce ticketing," he said.
"The people of Launceston have been fantastic and they've been really understanding of the new process and everything has gone really smoothly and a success."
Mr Cairnduff said it was a pleasure to see the people of Launceston back with such force for the 2019 event.
Stars event a calendar highlight
Performing at the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's Symphony Under the Stars is an annual highlight for its members.
For the past 11 years, William Newbery has been playing in the viola section of the orchestra.
"We're all so lucky to be able to do it. It's always a nice change to our regular activities throughout the year," he said.
"Being in a really beautiful natural surrounding is also a great start."
However, the natural environment brings with it its own challenges for the orchestra.
"It's unusual for an orchestra to play amplified, it can be a little bit harder to hear across the stage in a tent than in a concert hall," Newbery said.
"But, it's also by far the largest audience we play for in the year and you can tell also it has a different feel to the concert hall. It's a lot more relaxed, they can eat they can drink and there is a much more palpable sense of enjoyment from the audience."
Playing in the orchestra is akin to playing a team sport, Newbery said.
"It's a really structured, almost militaristic, way that an orchestra works. There are a lot of people and we all have our own opinions of how something should be played which is why you need a conductor to call the shots," he said.
"As a member of one of the string sections, I have to play along with all the other colleagues in my section. We play the same line where maybe the winds and brass have their own lines. For us it's very important to be able to very aware of our colleagues and particularly what the leader of the section is doing."
The symphony events are a popular project for the TSO, he said, because it's something different for the crowd.
"We sort of do get the feel that you connect with a large part of the Tasmanian community at these events where as other concerts can just be a positive feeling in the orchestra," Newbery said.
He has been playing the Viola since he was nine and has about 30 years practice since. He was a casual musician, and later secured a permanent spot.