"With three performances all featuring ensembles of eight musicians, this concert was a celebration of music weird and wonderful performed with the vivid colours of winds, voices and strings." writes reviewer FELIX HUBER.
Reviewer ROB KENNEDY gets among the "Fairies and Fools" and relishes a a "cracking performance and an excellent concert of some of the best music around".
Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 9, “Great Hall Rising”, Fitters’ Workshop, May 3. Reviewed by
ROB KENNEDY.
AUSTRALIAN democracy came about through several dramatic events. This concert linked some of the landmarks of Australian history with music that journeyed into the heart and soul of the nation.
The artists for this performance were: William Barton, didgeridoo; Delmae Barton, voice; Golden Gate Brass Quintet; Daniel and David Wilfred, songmen from Ngukurr in Arnhem Land; Susannah Lawergren, soprano; Jason Noble, clarinet; Veronique Serret, violin; James Wannan, viola; Blair Harris, cello; and Roland Peelman, piano.
In a concert of diverse performances that crossed much musical territory, it began with “Bakery Hill Rising”, by Vincent Plush. The title of this work coming from the Eureka Rebellion of 1854, which occurred in Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Victoria. From outside the workshop, the French horn played by Aidan Gabriels from the Golden Gate Brass Q