2008 CONCERTS
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Halcyon ... celebrating 10 years Halcyon revisits their very first performance with Sydney Alpha Ensemble in February 1998. As well as a showcase of excerpts from Halcyon events over the past decade, Halcyon will ‘replay’ two of the most loved and masterly works of the 20th century, George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children and Luciano Berio’s Folksongs, both showstoppers on that first unforgettable night. |
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HALCYON presents B3 Bryars Benjamin Butterley Presented in association with New Music Network Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook 1996 George Benjamin Upon Silence 1990/91 Nigel Butterley Orphei Mysteria (World Premiere) Date: 8pm Friday 17 October 2008 Where: VERBRUGGHEN HALL, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street Price: $30 Full / $20 Concession & Under 30 Bookings: (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door |
This program of substantial chamber works from England and Australia features three outstanding composers, Gavin Bryars, George Benjamin and Australia's Nigel Butterley, all of whom have turned to poetry for their inspiration.
Provocative and original, British composer Gavin Bryars began his career as a jazz bassist and a pioneer of free improvisation. The song cycle, Adnan Songbook, is a collaboration with Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan, and is representative of Bryars wide-ranging literary interests. In stark contrast, British composer George Benjamin's work Upon Silence sets a late poem of WB Yeats, Long-legged Fly, which portrays three momentous figures from history absorbed in quiet contemplation. Esteemed Australian composer Nigel Butterley has a longstanding affinity with such poets as Kathleen Raine, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and has selected the poems of Melbourne poet Patricia Excell for a new song cycle composed for Halcyon, Orphei Mysteria.
For more information (02) 9818 5941 or halcyonmail@optusnet.com.au