Canberra Symphony Orchestra Magazine

“The seed of knowledge is in your ear. It’s about community, connection, relationship.”

Connor’s work is a constant attempt to bring together sprawling artistic interests, and in doing so, create connections across audiences and communities.

Characterised by striking tensions, and bold rhythms, harmonies and orchestration, its florid passages and extended double-stopping figures demand a virtuosic soloist.

“it is here that music, as possibly never before, enacts and describes the psychology at the basis of his drama. With this, and the large scale use of unresolved dissonance, music itself would never be quite the same again…”

When we launched rest in 2021, we set out to create a space where we could explore and celebrate the role music plays in our human experience. This quarterly magazine is a companion to CSO concerts, but we hope it finds its way onto kitchen tables, bookshelves and back verandahs.

PARTNER FEATURE / In early 2020, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO) moved into new offices at 1 Farrell Place, overlooking Llewellyn Hall. To celebrate the new space, the CSO commissioned a reception desk through a project partnership with the UC Faculty of Arts & Design, designed and fabricated by the technical staff of Workshop7.

“From simple beginnings, Mendelssohn builds a mighty fortress indeed, drawing on all the resources of counterpoint.”

Richard Meale’s Coruscations is ‘…dazzling and remarkably lyrical music.’

This is a journey piece. About travel. Maybe a long way or at night. Taken to an unfamiliar destination.

‘It’s frightfully melancholy,’ Debussy wrote to Godet. ‘I don’t know if one should laugh at it or cry? Perhaps both?’