Event
Camerata – When the World Was Wide
- Date: Thursday, 28 November 2019, 7pm
- Venue: QPAC Concert Hall — Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Cnr Grey St and Melbourne St, Southbank, QLD
- Tickets: Adult: $85 | Concession: $75 | Student: $33 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on 136246
Event Details
FEATURING
Tama Matheson – writer & actor
Artists from Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
WHAT TO EXPECT
Not quite a concert, not quite a play, When The World Was Wide is a melding of narrative, acting and concert music. It digs deep into the life and sparring friendship of two of Australia’s most iconic poets and writers, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, drawing on atmospheric and evocative music to set the scene. When The World Was Wide is the fifth collaboration between Camerata and Tama Matheson. Audiences and critics continue to praise these adventurous artistic collaborations.
This was engaging and significant, an enjoyable event brokered by the productive, no frills alliance between music and theatre, where each art form was fully realised yet supportive of each other. Such success in the vexed terrain of interdisciplinary venture is rare. (Limelight Magazine on the 2017 smash hit, The White Mouse)
PROGRAM
Excerpts from:
May Brahe/Helen Taylor Bless This House
John Thorn/Henry Lawson The Shame of Going Back
John Thorn/Henry Lawson Faces in the Street
Peter Sculthorpe Port Essington
John Tavener Eternal Memory for Cello and Strings
Miriam Hyde Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda (arranged for Strings)
Cameron Patrick Impressions of Erin for String Orchestra
Featured non-Australian music: John Tavener
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Bless this house : string orchestra by May Brahe — performed by Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra | |
| Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda : string orchestra by Miriam Hyde — performed by Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra | |
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| Port Essington : for strings (1977) by Peter Sculthorpe — performed by Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra |
| Faces in the Street by John Thorn | |
| Impressions of Erin by Cameron Patrick | |
| The Shame of Going Back by John Thorn |
Featured artists
- Music of John Thorn
- Music of Cameron Patrick
- Performer Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra
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