Event
Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds
- Date: Saturday, 1 June 2019, 7:30pm
- Venue: City Recital Hall — 2 Angel Place, Sydney, NSW
- Tickets: Standard: $59 - $69 | Concession: $54 - $64 | Under 30: $40 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 8256 2222
Event Details
"Part art music, part poetry reading and part folk-rock oratorio, it was by turns profoundly moving, playful and darkly atmospheric" - The Age.
Birds have fascinated poets for centuries, not just for their song and flight but as symbols: of hope, freedom, love, communication, peace, luck good and bad, and migration. And what better way to honour them than by sending songs out into the air?
In a new song cycle stemmed from an idea by Anna Goldsworthy, Australian music legend Paul Kelly and leading Australian composer James Ledger have written thirteen new songs and soundscapes inspired by birds. Using the words of John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A.D. Hope and others, each poem is its own world - delicate and intimate at times, colossal and soaring at others, with all states in between.
For one performance only, Paul Kelly and James Ledger will be joined by celebrated piano trio Seraphim (Anna Goldsworthy – piano, Helen Ayres – violin and Tim Nankervis – cello) and singer-songwriter Alice Keath to create a unique marriage of electronics, acoustic instruments and the human voice, celebrating winged creatures from the barn owl to the nightingale, from the thornbill to the falcon, from the magpie to the swan.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds : vocal duo by James Ledger and Paul Kelly — performed by Alice Keath, Tim Nankervis, Helen Ayres, Anna Goldsworthy, Paul Kelly and James Ledger |
Featured artists
- Performer James Ledger
- Performer Paul Kelly
- Performer Anna Goldsworthy
- Performer Helen Ayres
- Performer Tim Nankervis
- Performer Alice Keath
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