Ensemble Offspring transcends the rituals of the concert hall in a drama-infused program that’s as much for the eyes as it is for the ears.
At the heart of the concert, David T. Little’s Ghostlight plays on the superstitions and mysteries of the theatre in a spellbinding musical journey – equal parts introspection and turbulent drama. A transcendent new work for voice and quartet by Jane Sheldon takes the Buddhist concept of vihava tanha (the desire for non-existence) as its starting point.
Transformation underpins Entropic Arrows by Icelandic powerhouse Anna Thorvaldsdottir, as fragile and delicate musical ideas are passed from one musician to another – no turning back. And Daniela Terranova’s Rainbow Dust in the Sky offers ghostly echoes and fragments from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in an elusive lullaby. Jane Sheldon returns to the stage for Lisa Illean’s ethereal and romantic Cantor (after Willa Cather) haunting the boundaries between day and night. Wrapping the music in visions of light, an immersive video by Peachey & Mosig will make this divinely dark sonic dreamworld all encompassing.
“Lisa Illean’s calm soprano part explores the quiet certainties of the inner world against a background of loneliness and delicate beauty.”
—The Sydney Morning Herald
“David T. Little is one of the most imaginative young composers on the music-theatre scene…not a post-classical composer but a classical composer with a surprisingly broad range.”
—The New Yorker
Performance details:
- Thursday 3 July 6:30pm, The Neilson ACO On The Pier, Sydney
- Pre-concert talk at 5:45pm Vanessa Hughes
- Friday 4 July 6:30pm, The Street Theatre, Canberra
Concert run-time approx. 75 minutes.
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