Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

1 November at Wesley Church

Traditional, arranged by Carol Shortis: Polskie Kwiaty
Simon Eastwood: Jericho: Walls Will Fall
Henryk Górecki: Three Pieces in Olden Style
Witold Lutoslawski: Melodie Ludowe
Krzysztof Penderecki: Allegro Moderato from Sextet
Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus
Karol Szymanowski: Rymy Dzieciece  – Children’s Rhymes Op. 49
Karlo Margetic: Hommage  à W.L.
Carol Shortis: Tesknota [...]

Well, my hopes/predictions really could not have been further off the mark. The elephant in the room is the absence of any opera (unless you count Simon O’Neill’s Wagner recital). There is a reasonable amount of chamber music on hand – almost all on the weekend of the 6th-7th of March’, but nothing really outside [...]

This is an essay that was originally composed for Electronic Music History (MUSC 246), written shortly after my previous post about John Cousins, which fed into the essay. The task was to critically assess an aspect of ‘electroacoustic’ music of demonstrable significance to the development of the art-form in Australasia. It was probably evident from [...]

Cigarettes for Ping Pong
Hermione Johnson: The Deep Blue Sky
Alexandra Hay: Moon Song
King Pan Ng: ExtremeLand

I wasn’t sure what to expect in turning up to Sound image EXTREME Lands, but my composition tutor (Alex Hay) was having a composition performed, so I decided to turn up. The concert began slightly unexpectedly, with Australian singer Carol Micallef [...]

Chris Gendall: Wax Lyrical
Jeff Henderson: UnCage my HeArt
Salvatore Sciarrino: Quaderno di Strada

Stroma’s second concert of the year could scarcely have felt different to the first. The uniquely lyrical modernism of Jenny McLeod, David Downes’ ferocious rhythmic onslaught and Michael Norris’ fierce technicality were replaced  by music of pure aggression, at least for [...]