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Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address with Kim Williams AM
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017, 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Location: University of Adelaide
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks address is the single most important national forum for contemporary music discourse, which honours one of Australia’s great international composers. In 2017, the address will be given by Kim Williams AM, whose career as a media executive and composer has seen him head prominent organisations such as Foxtel, Musica Viva Australia, the Sydney Opera House Trust, News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited), and the Australian Film Commission. In this lecture, entitled "I Wonder as I Wander: The Digital Paradox - Paradise or Purgatory?" Williams aims to ignite the national conversation around contemporary art music. Further details and to register here.
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The Wreckers
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017
- Location: TBA
Inspired by queer interjections into mainstream classical music, the Adelaide Queer Orchestra Project offers a programme that irreverently pushes against the expectations and limitations of orchestral presentation. It challenges the invisibility of queer music and people within the classical tradition, by exploring the relationships between sexuality, composition and performance, both past and present.
The Wreckers is part of this programme and showcases the work of queer composers and musicians. It begins with Australian composer Alex Turley’s Efflorescence, followed by Tansy Davies’s saxophone concerto Iris, and Pauline Oliveros’s to Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, “In Recognition Of Their Desperation.” The second half features the work of Shoshanna Rosenberg and Iran Sanadzadeh, as well as Dan Thorpe’s newly commissioned concerto for cello and tactile electronics. The concert closes with a piece from its namesake —Dame Ethel Smyth’s Prelude to the Wreckers.
