WASO @ THNMF
Program 1
Plan B Financial Services Ltd Great Classics series
Gordon Kerry
Children’s Voices
Gordon Kerry
For those in peril on the sea
World Premiere
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Gondwana Voices
Commissioned by Symphony Australia for Gondwana Voices, Australia’s national children’s choir and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, For those in peril on the sea uses an eclectic assortment of texts and a varied orchestral palette to explore various metaphorical images of the sea, innocence and experience. A short poem by Constantine Cavafy describes a mother waiting in vain for her child to return from a sea voyage & Gerard Manley Hopkins mourns the deaths of a boat-load of refugees in the North Sea. For WA poet John Kinsella the sea is at once the scene of childhood adventure and wonder, and an image of the constant flux of the universe out of which he extracts an image of hope and renewal. This is amplified in St Paul’s ecstatic description of love.
Gondwana Voices
Also in the program are Mozart’s Symphony No.25, Debussy’s (orch. Caplet) Children’s Corner & Haydn’s Symphony No. 55 (The Schoolmaster)
Gordon Kerry composes and writes about music on a hilltop in north-eastern Victoria. Recent premieres of his work have taken place in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. His last work for the WASO, This Insubstantial Pageant, was the APRA/AMC Orchestra work of the year for 2004.
Perth Concert Hall, 5 St Georges Tce, Perth
8pm, Friday 7th & Saturday 8th October
Tickets from $40-$65
Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
Kerry’s work will also be performed at the Hawaiian Morning Symphony
Perth Concert Hall
11am, Thursday 6th October
Tickets from $20-$42
Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
Program 2
St John of God Health Care Masters series
Iain Grandage
Photo Francis Andrijich
Ooldea
Iain Grandage
Ooldea
World Premiere
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Elders of the Spinifex Lands
Perth composer Iain Grandage has worked with members of the Spinifex communities from the Western Desert to realise this striking musical setting of some of their deepest myths and songs.
Visiting the community over the past 2 years, including a visit with members of the orchestra, the composer has created a unique interactive process between indigenous ritual and orchestral instrumentation.
Also in the program is Mahler’s Symphony No.5
Iain Grandage is currently Composer-in-Residence with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He has won Helpmann and Green Room Awards for theatre scores including Cloudstreet, Plainsong, The Blue Room, Babes in the Wood and True West. He has also composed an opera for children, scores for dance projects, and incidental music for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Forthcoming projects include adaptions of The Odyssey and The Hobbit, the dance-theatre projects Lawn and The Drover’s Wives and an opera for the WA Opera Company.
Perth Concert Hall, 5 St Georges Tce Perth
8pm, Friday 14th & Saturday 15th October
Tickets from $20-$65
Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or www.waso.com.au
