CDLetters from a Black Snake / songs by George Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Also includes: Songs of Travel / Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Product details
Letters from a Black Snake are based on words written in
letters by Ned Kelly himself. Set masterfully by George Palmer
providing a sympathetic picture of Ned Kelly as a literate,
much-maligned and wronged, intelligent and sensitive man. The
song cycle was commissioned by Ernst & Young, in 2007, to mark
the opening of a major retrospective of the works of Sidney
Nolan, who identified himself with Kelly and painted a series of
pictures of episodes in Kelly's saga.
The first of the five songs is a short note written by Ned at the
age of 15, seeking the help of a police sergeant in finding work
and introduces himself as the persona 'the black snake' which is
how the townspeople are beginning to characterise him. The last
is a letter to the Governor of Victoria, written hours before Ned
was hanged, in which Ned asks for the release of his mother from
prison and requests that he be buried in consecrated ground. The
letters reveal Ned as an intelligent and resourceful man, despite
a lack of formal education. He can be lyrical, even poetic, and
the next moment almost incoherent with rage.
Cloudstreet is a novel written in 1991 by Tim Winton. It
tells the story of two families from working class backgrounds,
the Pickles and the Lambs who happen to live together in a house
in Perth, called Cloudstreet, over a period of twenty years.
Figures from an Urban Landscape is a cycle of three
songs depicting the city and suburbs of Sydney. Words by well
renowned poets - Judith Wright, Bruce Dawe and Kenneth
Slessor.
Songs of Travel composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams to
poems from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection of Songs of
Travel and Other Verses, is a cycle of nine songs for
baritone voice and piano.
Liner notes include program notes, and lyrics of all songs.
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