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Then and Now

Sheet Music: Performance Parts

Then and Now : for low voice and string quartet / music by Carl Vine ; words by Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

by Carl Vine (2018)

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  • Instrumentation: Alto voice, 2 violins, viola, cello.
  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Katie Noonan, Australian String Quartet from the CD Glad Tomorrow

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Product details

Australian singer-songwriter Katie Noonan commissioned musical settings of poetry by the extraordinary indigenous writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal from several Australian composers. I chose Oodgeroo's poem Then And Now for its stunning demonstration of forbearance from a woman who had been mistreated for so much of her life, but who decided that racial tensions would only ever improve through reflection and tolerance.
A disappointing proportion of white Australians still choose to believe that the mistreatment and denigration of our country's first nation either never happened or has now evaporated. Oodgeroo's light but firm tone in this quiet reminiscence is an object lesson in generosity of spirit.

Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Faber Music) — 1 set of 5 performance parts (18p. -- A4 (portrait))

Duration: 5 mins

Commission info: Commissioned by Katie Noonan for a series of performances featuring the Australian String Quartet

First performance by Katie Noonan, Australian String Quartet at ASQ & Katie Noonan: The Glad Tomorrow (Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall) on 28 Oct 2019

Part for voice is a piano reduction.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 2019.


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