Event
Ruthless Jabiru: The Past : Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts
- Date: Saturday, 31 May 2014, 7:30pm
- Venue: King's College Chapel (London) — Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
- Tickets: £18/£15 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru will stage a performance honouring Australian poet and political activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker). The program will centre around The Past, an orchestral song for countertenor by Australian composer Andrew Ford, interweaving Oodgeroo’s poem of the same name with James Cook’s diaries of his contact with the First Australians. Through a collection of contemporary British and Australian music for string orchestra, Ruthless Jabiru and award-winning Australian countertenor Russell Harcourt will carry the listener on an evocative journey back into the corners of our country’s past.
Michael Tippett - Lament from Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round (or, The Beginning of the World)
Chris Williams - Altjiranga Mitjina
Tansy Davies - Residuum
Andrew Ford - The Past
Egidija Medekšaité - Sandhi Prakash
Ruthless Jabiru
Kelly Lovelady conductor
Russell Harcourt countertenor
Featured non-Australian music: Tippett, Davies, Medekšaité
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Altjiranga mitjina : for string orchestra (2009) by Chris Williams — performed by Ruthless Jabiru |
The Past : for counter-tenor, flute and string orchestra (1997) by Andrew Ford — performed by Ruthless Jabiru and Russell Harcourt |
Featured artists
- Performer Russell Harcourt
- Performer Ruthless Jabiru
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