Event
Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds
- Date: Friday, 14 June 2019, 6pm & 8:30pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: 8:30pm concert - General: $84 | 6pm concert - A reserve: $69 | B reserve: $59 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Event Details
Birds have fascinated poets for centuries, not just for their song and flight but as symbols: of hope, freedom, love, communication, peace, luck good and bad and migration.
And what better way to honour them than by sending songs out into the air? In a new song cycle Australian music legend Paul Kelly and leading Australian composer James Ledger have written 13 new songs and soundscapes inspired by birds, using words from the likes of John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A.D. Hope and more. Each poem is its own world — delicate and intimate at times, colossal and soaring at others, with all states in between.
‘James Ledger has established an impressive reputation as a symphonic composer.’ The Australian
‘(Paul Kelly’s) voice – sly and warm, laconic and sometimes frail – may be the closest thing we have to a national one.’ The Monthly
Originally commissioned by Adelaide Festival and Perth Festival.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in arrangement with GWB Entertainment
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
| Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds : vocal duo by James Ledger and Paul Kelly — performed by Alice Keath, Tim Nankervis, Helen Ayres, Anna Goldsworthy, Paul Kelly and James Ledger |
Featured artists
- Performer James Ledger
- Performer Paul Kelly
- Performer Anna Goldsworthy
- Performer Helen Ayres
- Performer Tim Nankervis
- Performer Alice Keath
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