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chamber music
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Hearing the LandCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Emergence (Deborah Cheetham)
I am no longer the same person, composer, soprano as the one who entered into 2020 in good faith. Am I more? Am I less? Time will tell. For now I am content to emerge and see what path can be forged.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Hearing the LandCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Solace (Kirsten Milenko)
Solace considers the accelerated regenerative processes that follow extreme levels of fire and natural disaster. The material functions in orbits, presenting the multi-dimensional process of regeneration that is one of both life and death, beginning and end.
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Eric Avery is a creative polymath: a Ngiyampaa, Gumbangirr, Bandjalang and Yuin artist, trained in classical violin, composition and dance. Avery’s work traverses the natural and the man-made, bringing together ancient tradition and language with contemporary technology and production techniques.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Hearing the LandCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Songs for Silent Earth (Natalie Williams)
The piece was commissioned as a work that could celebrate the natural beauty of the Byron Bay area, alongside a celebration of the voices of women. This suite reflects upon three female figures and interprets their voices musically in a series of ‘songs for the hours,’ musical pieces intended for the passage of the day.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Hearing the LandCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Mirage (Michael Sollis)
Mirage was commissioned by the Canberra International Music Festival in 2012 for a concert celebrating the works of Manning Clark, performed by Kiri Sollis and Michael Askill. It featured in The Griffyn Ensemble’s Cloudy With A Chance of Rain, with the above introduction from former weatherman and geomorphologist Rob Gell. Mirage involves both musicians seemingly chasing each other – both musically, and physically – inspired by imagery from the Australian desert.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Collective MemoryCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
MEMORY HISTORY POWER (Rhyan Clapham)
In the lyrics of this piece with the CSO Chamber Ensemble, I am resurfacing old journal entries of Cook and fellow colonists who first invaded, to ultimately challenge listeners on the idea of truth. What is truth? Who can tell it?
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Collective MemoryCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Lament, In Memoriam of Ora Boasson-Horev (Yitzhak Yedid)
Ora was an extremely gifted bass player who performed with great talent and finesse. She was my best friend and we performed together for about 15 years. This composition was an opportunity for me to memorialise and remember her, through this unaccompanied, beautiful composition, Lament.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Collective MemoryCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Bungaree (Deborah Cheetham)
Bungaree, or Boongaree, (1775 – 24 November 1830) was an Aboriginal Australian from the Kuringgai people of the Broken Bay area north of Sydney, who was known as an explorer, entertainer, and Aboriginal community leader.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Collective MemoryCSO 2022PeopleProgram note
Bardju / Footprints (Brenda Gifford)
Bardju is about the footsteps we each take, and to tell us that we need to tread lightly on Mother Earth and take care of her.