Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

This event is part of the Incredible Floridas - Chamber Landscapes concert series curated by Kim Williams.

Richard Meale’s homage to Rimbaud is an iconic work of Australian modernist art which, like the pilotless boat of the poem from which it draws its title, ‘composed itself’ in an august Adelaide terrace at the start of the Dunstan era, 50 years ago. A slightly surreal doco by the young Peter Weir captures the spirit and ironies of the age. The incomparable Geoffrey Collins plays the solo Meale wrote for him (Melisande) and two joyous pieces by Ross Edwards provide fresh bush-scented relief from one and Marimba magic from the other.

ARTISTS

Jack Symonds, conductor
Geoffrey Collins, flute
John Gaden, poetry
Jason Noble, clarinet
Claire Edwardes, percussion
Jacob Abela, piano
James Wannan, violin & viola
Blair Harris, cello
Australian String Quartet

PROGRAM

Ross Edwards (b. 1943): Laikan (1979)
Richard Meale (1932-2009): Melisande (1996)
Ross Edwards (b. 1943): String Quartet No. 3 'Summer Dances' (2012)
Peter Weir (b. 1944): Incredible Floridas (1972)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): The Drunken Boat (Le bateau ivre) (1871)
Richard Meale (1932-2009): Incredible Floridas (1971)

Featured non-Australian music: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to stevp@adelaidefestival.com.au

Featured Australian Works

	Incredible floridas : sextet (1971) by Richard Meale
	Laikan : instrumental sextet (1979) by Ross Edwards
	Melisande : for solo flute (1996) by Richard Meale — performed by Geoffrey Collins
	String quartet no. 3 : Summer dances : string quartet (2012) by Ross Edwards — performed by Australian String Quartet

Featured artists

• Performer Geoffrey Collins
• Performer Australian String Quartet