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Work Overview
There are recorded instances of Aboriginal People mistaking early
Europeans in Australia for the ghosts of their ancestors, since
ghosts were believed to be light-coloured.
As I composed White Ghost Dancing, the concept of a white ghost
came to symbolise non-indigenous Australia's innate Aboriginality
- its capacity to transform and heal itself through spiritual
connectedness with the earth.
I believe that music, which has enormous therapeutic properties
and, for me, a close relationship with ritual - and especially
dance - is destined to make an important contribution to this
transformation and healing, hence the title.
Typical of my maninya (dance/chant pieces), White Ghost Dancing
is a compact mosaic of unconsciously processed shapes and
patterns from the natural world: fragments of birdsong, insect
and frog rhythms, as well as fleeting references to other works
of mine and hinted fusions of Aboriginal and Gregorian chant.
Work Details
Year: 1999
Duration: 8-10 min.
Analysis
Program note: Ross Edwards' "White ghost dancing"
by Ross Edwards
Source: the score of this work
Composer profile – Ross Edwards, A Natural Way
by G.K. Williams
Source: Published by Symphony Services
eBook: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards [eKit] / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
Kit: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
Book: 2002 Australian composition kit : resource kit / Sydney Symphony Education Program.
Performances of this work
24 May 2019: at SCM Wind Symphony (Greenway Series) (Verbrugghen Hall). Featuring John Lynch, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony.
17 Mar 2018: at KPO presents 'Firebird & Strauss' (The Concourse, Chatswood). Featuring Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Terracini.
17 Mar 2018: at KPO: Firebird, Strauss, Edwards (The Concourse, Chatswood). Featuring Paul Terracini, Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra.
24 Jun 2016: at Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Prokofiev & Edwards (Adelaide Town Hall). Featuring Nicholas Carter, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
5 Dec 2015: at Edo conducts Mozart & Elgar & Edwards (Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall). Featuring Edo de Waart, Sydney Symphony.
4 Dec 2015: at Edo conducts Mozart & Elgar & Edwards (Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall). Featuring Edo de Waart, Sydney Symphony.
3 Dec 2015: at Edo conducts Mozart & Elgar & Edwards (Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall). Featuring Sydney Symphony, Edo de Waart.
22 Aug 2015: at Greenway Series at Sydney Con (Verbrugghen Hall). Featuring Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.
21 Aug 2015: at Greenway Series at Sydney Con (Verbrugghen Hall). Featuring Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Diazmuñoz.
14 Aug 2015: at Ulster Orchestra & BBC Radio 3 (Ulster Hall (Belfast, UK)). Featuring David Porcelijn, Ulster Orchestra.
22 Apr 2015: at Towards First Light (Adelaide Town Hall). Featuring Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Iain Grandage.
17 Mar 2011: at White Ghost Dancing (Sydney Town Hall). Featuring Max McBride, David Pereira, Sydney Youth Orchestra.
12 Mar 2011: at Sydney Youth Orchestra (City Recital Hall). Featuring Max McBride, Sydney Youth Orchestra.
6 Nov 2010: at Penrith Symphony Orchestra (Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre). Featuring Penrith Symphony Orchestra.
5 Jul 00: Odeon Theatre, Hobart. Featuring Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn.
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