First Light - Australian Series
Schedule
Thu Sep 12 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
National Museum of Australia | Canberra, CT
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This program explores the ineffable and poetic relationship between artists and their art, celebrating the mystery of musical creation. ‘Burruguu is all around us,’ writes Yuwaalaraay composer and storyteller Nardi Simpson: ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’. In this spacious work, Simpson stretches our perception of time, musing on both the expansive Aboriginal Dreaming and the precise moment in which a musical work is realised.
In Light for the First Time, percussionist, drummer and composer Bree van Reyk invites us to imagine a near-universal yet forgotten experience: opening one’s eyes for the first time. Our experience of time slows down in this exquisite musical meditation: a shimmering, abstract expression of ‘the sight of a being which is yet to be born’.
The Heart’s Ear evolves from a single fragment of Sufi melody. Virtuosic yet earthy and organic, this striking work by Liza Lim explores the attentive silence that permeates the poetry of thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi: ‘a state of listening with ‘the heart’s ear’’.
This program also features a new commission from Natalie Williams.
Artists
Jessica Cottis Curator
CSO Chamber Ensemble
Repertoire
Nardi Simpson Burruguu (Time of Creation)
Bree Van Reyk Light for the First Time
Natalie Williams Light Visions, World premiere, new CSO commission
Liza Lim The Heart’s Ear
Duration - 70 minutes
When - Thu 12 SEP at 6:30PM
Venue - Canberra NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA (GANDEL ATRIUM)
Accessibility - Wheelchair access
https://cso.org.au/concerts/first-light
Ticket Prices - $65–72
Adults - $59–66
Concession (means-tested pensioners, full-time students)
$35 Under 35
$16 Student rush
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Where is it happening?
National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton,Canberra,ACT,AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
