Event
Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories
- Date: Friday, 29 June 2018, 7:30pm
- Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium — University of Western Australia, School of Music, Crawley, WA
- Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Pianist Gabriella Smart takes the audience on a journey inspired by the narratives of two pianos from colonial Australia: Percy Grainger’s childhood piano, and the first piano to be transported to Alice Springs, reputedly on the back of a camel from Oodnadatta.
Leading composers Cat Hope and Erkki Veltheim have transformed narratives surrounding these pianos to create works that are inspirationally original and unique. Hope instills the piano with theremin like qualities, inspired by Grainger’s Free Music, while Veltheim morphs history with contemporary culture where morse code is played on colonial piano to spell out the world’s most retweeted tweet of January 2015, reflecting our universal obsession with trivia. The result is music that is mesmerizingly beautiful, and sharply confronting.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@tura.com.au
Featured Australian Works
Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories by Gabriella Smart |
Featured artists
- Music of Cat Hope
- Music of Erkki Veltheim
- Performer Gabriella Smart
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