Queen’s arena-shaking swagger meets Philip Sparke’s symphonic imagination in Queen – Symphonic Highlights, an eight-minute roller-coaster that welds four of the band’s biggest hits into a single concert-band blockbuster. Sparke keeps the rock muscle—drum kit back-beats, wailing guitar bends now sung by horn glissandi—yet layers it with the colour, key-drifts and metric feints of a tone-poem. Expect the orchestra to plunge from mock-operatic bombast to hushed power-ballad tenderness, then roar back for a victory-lap coda that practically begs you to shout “of the world!”
Rock Meets Wind Symphony Queen spent much of 1975 overdubbing Bohemian Rhapsody—producer Roy Thomas Baker stacked roughly 180–200 vocal and guitar tracks across four London studios to create its six-minute mini-opera. The single dominated Britain’s Christmas chart for nine straight weeks and remains the only song to top the UK list twice with the same recording. Arranger Philip Sparke (Anglo Music) turns that studio epic into live symphonic drama: woodwind chorales unveil the a-cappella introduction, horn hand-stops glide through Brian May’s trademark guitar bends, and trombone falls cover the operatic “Gallileo” swoops. When Kelvin Grove’s brass hurl the last E-flat-major chord skyward, don’t wait: shout the missing words—“…of the world!” The band—and Freddie’s spirit—will be listening. Join us The Old Museum on Sunday August 31st at 2pm. Ticket available via the yellow button below or visit www.kgwo.org.au | 
