Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

There are few areas where Elena Kats-Chernin fears to tread. Her Village Idiot, a 14-minute work for electric guitar, harpsichord, strings and percussion, continues her fascination with altered mental states and was composed to accompany an exhibition by schizophrenic artists. Golden Kitsch is simultaneously a post modern "toy symphony" using toy pianos and sleigh bells, an oblique tribute to the spirit of the Viennese waltz and a personal "take" on the morphing of the Viennese symbolist artist Gustav Klimt from avant garde icon to kitsch pop icon.

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Featured Australian Works

	Golden kitsch : Percussion concerto (2009) by Elena Kats-Chernin — performed by Marc Taddei, Claire Edwardes and Queensland Symphony Orchestra
	Village idiot : full orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin — performed by Marc Taddei and Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Featured artists

• Performer Queensland Symphony Orchestra
• Performer Claire Edwardes
• Conductor Marc Taddei

Featured non-Australian music

Schwantner, Adams