Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

Hear and Now : Down Under

Event

Hear and Now : Down Under

  • Date: Saturday, 17 March 2012, 7.30pm
  • Venue: City Halls (Glasgow) — Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Tickets: This is a free event

Event Details

The BBC SSO presents an evening of music by composers from New Zealand and Australia, many of them European Premieres.

Edinburgh-based composer Lyell Cresswell's Piano Concerto, written for a close friend, is by turns melancholic, angry, and contemplative, while Jack Body's Little Elegies was composed in response to the horrors of war. Liza Lim's work has been acclaimed for its vibrancy and colour and the orchestra gives the UK Premiere of one of her new works while Helen Bowater's New Year Fanfare re-captures a raucous Hogmanay in Java.

Expect vibrancy, energy and some exotic instrumentation as the countries' composers fuse European, Pacific and Asian influences to stunning effect under the direction of the young Dutch conductor Otto Tausk

Featured non-Australian music: New Zealand works by Helen Bowater, Samuel Holloway, Lyall Cresswell, and Jack Body

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website

Featured Australian Works

Pearl, ochre, hair string : for orchestra (2009) by Liza Lim
— performed by BBC Scottish Orchestra

Featured artists

User reviews & comments

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions or insights about this event.

To post your comment please login