Forwarded to me by one of the senior executive at my school:
Find it here if the above doesn't work for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuwR2JSXI
Which I'm sure I'll find an opportunity to show!
Cheers
Ruth
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Twilight: the concert
..if you're in Penrith, NSW, Australia, and you book you can be in the audience; or else you can listen to the radio (ABC Classic FM) and hear it:
Sunday 22 March at 3.00pm - LEICHHARDT ESPRESSO CHORUS
The Leichhardt Espresso Chorus began in 1998 when Elizabeth Mulrennan of Norton Street Bookshop decided she wanted to be part of a local choir made up of people who ‘simply wanted to sing’. Musical director Michelle Leonard leads the chorus today in Love, Lust and Longing — Songs for Edward and Bella, an all Australian program inspired by American writer Stephanie Meyer’s vampiric novel Twilight.
Learn how to book (it's free!) here. Thanks to the TL colleague who tipped me off to this!
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Sunday 22 March at 3.00pm - LEICHHARDT ESPRESSO CHORUS
The Leichhardt Espresso Chorus began in 1998 when Elizabeth Mulrennan of Norton Street Bookshop decided she wanted to be part of a local choir made up of people who ‘simply wanted to sing’. Musical director Michelle Leonard leads the chorus today in Love, Lust and Longing — Songs for Edward and Bella, an all Australian program inspired by American writer Stephanie Meyer’s vampiric novel Twilight.
Learn how to book (it's free!) here. Thanks to the TL colleague who tipped me off to this!
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Friday, July 25, 2008
The Red Tree: From picture book to music
Shaun Tan's picture book, The Red Tree, has inspired a musical composition. The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the work in Child's tale taps emotional scales by Clare Morgan. Quoting from her article:
It is moving, terrifying, funny and uplifting - which is exactly what composer Michael Yezerski wants audiences to experience when the Australian Chamber Orchestra performs a new composition inspired by the book.
The work, made possible through a bequest from Barbara Blackman, will feature the orchestra and the Gondwana Voices children's choir and will be accompanied by projected images from the book.
But rather than acting merely as a backdrop, the images have provided inspiration for Yezerski and fellow composer Richard Tognetti, who have aimed for a symbiotic relationship between music and pictures.
"One of the things we want to stress is we're not actually scoring the book, like you would score a film or a play. What we've done with every image is we've interpreted it and it's our own response to the image, as composers," Yezerski says.
There's a 7-minute YouTube piece about this work:
or here's the link, if you can't access the above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTwMo8irNb0 (it's one of several video links from the ACO).
It is moving, terrifying, funny and uplifting - which is exactly what composer Michael Yezerski wants audiences to experience when the Australian Chamber Orchestra performs a new composition inspired by the book.
The work, made possible through a bequest from Barbara Blackman, will feature the orchestra and the Gondwana Voices children's choir and will be accompanied by projected images from the book.
But rather than acting merely as a backdrop, the images have provided inspiration for Yezerski and fellow composer Richard Tognetti, who have aimed for a symbiotic relationship between music and pictures.
"One of the things we want to stress is we're not actually scoring the book, like you would score a film or a play. What we've done with every image is we've interpreted it and it's our own response to the image, as composers," Yezerski says.
There's a 7-minute YouTube piece about this work:
or here's the link, if you can't access the above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTwMo8irNb0 (it's one of several video links from the ACO).
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