Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

This concert moves between two spaces at the Abbotsford Convent, from the Good Shepherd Chapel to the main performance auditorium. Martin Friedel's UNDERWORLD SONGS draw on sources such as The Argus, the Police Gazette and other publications since the 1920s, from his period as Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.

"Before the modern Babel of the internet, lives outside the circles of wealth and power went undocumented and unnoticed beyond family and neighbourhood. When such an ordinary life did go wrong through crime or misfortune, an unnoticed existence became visible and, for a short time, took a clear and sharply defined shape...It could be a short ride from misdeed to myth..."(Martin Friedel)

Performers: Saxophone JASON XANTHOUDAKIS Trombone, CHARLES MCINNES Accordion, JULIUS MILLAR Guitar, ANTHONY FIELD Keyboard, KIM BASTIN Percussion, TIMOTHY PHILLIPS Cello, ALISTAIR MARKER SOLOISTS and Instruments with the ASTRA CHOIR conducted by JOHN MCCAUGHEY

Featured non-Australian music: Riccardo Vaglini, Two new choruses (2013)

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9326 5424 or by email to info@astramusic.org.au

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• Conductor John McCaughey
• Performer Astra Choir
• Performer Jason Xanthoudakis
• Performer Charles McInnes
• Performer Julius Millar
• Performer Anthony Field
• Performer Kim Bastin
• Performer Timothy Phillips
• Performer Alistair Marker