Event
New Ancient Songs
- Date: Sunday, 10 March 2019, 11:30am
- Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre — 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA
- Series: This event is part of the Adelaide Festival 2019 series
- Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Music to summon wide open spaces and the scent of eucalypts after rain. Contemporary Australian string miniatures alongside central desert field recordings, world premieres by Andrea Keller and Erkki Veltheim, and old European instruments accompanying new songs by young Aboriginal voices. Music by Peter Sculthorpe, Hollis Taylor, Ella Macens, Brett Dean, Emily Wurramara, Alice Skye, performed by Emily, Alice, Saraima Navara with Erkki Veltheim, Andrea Keller, Joe Talia and ensemble.
PROGRAM
John Rodgers (b. 1962) arr. E. Veltheim (b. 1976): Carolling 3 (2019)
Hollis Taylor (b. 1951): Night Shift
Ella Macens (b. 1991): The Lake
Alice Skye (b. 1995) arr. E. Veltheim (b. 1976): You Are The Mountains
Andrea Keller (b. 1973): Home (2019)
Emily Wurramara (b. 1996) arr. E. Veltheim: Blue Moon, Black Sea
Andrea Keller: Compassionately Yours (2019)
Alice Skye arr. E. Veltheim: She Oak
Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014): Little Serenade
Hollis Taylor: Banana Paper
Brett Dean (b. 1961): Intimate Decisions
Hollis Taylor: Green Lake, Victoria
Peter Sculthorpe: Looking Back
Erkki Veltheim: Ingress (2019)
Erkki Veltheim: A Faraway Landscape (at dusk) (2019)
Emily Wurramara arr. E. Veltheim: Ngerraberrakernama (Wake Up) (2019)
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Banana paper (solo double bass) by Hollis Taylor | |
| Compassionately Yours (string orchestra with multiple soloists) (2019) by Andrea Keller — World premiere |
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| Green Lake, Victoria : for soprano recorder and field recording by Hollis Taylor |
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| Home (solo piano) (2019) by Andrea Keller — World premiere — performed by Andrea Keller |
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| Intimate decisions : for viola solo (1996) by Brett Dean |
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| Looking back : for violin, viola, cello and double bass (2001) by Peter Sculthorpe |
| Night shift : for violin and field recording by Hollis Taylor | |
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| The Lake : for string orchestra (2018) by Ella Macens |
| A Faraway Landscape (at dusk) by Erkki Veltheim — World premiere | |
| Ingress by Erkki Veltheim — World premiere |
Featured artists
- Music of Emily Wurramara
- Music of Alice Skye
- New work by Erkki Veltheim
- Music of John Rodgers
- Performer Andrea Keller
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