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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
Sydney Festival s Heartland sees a seedling grow into a mighty tree
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By Harriet Cunningham
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Seymour Centre, January 15
Heartland began, like a tiny seedling, as a six-minute commission for the 2019 Canberra International Music Festival. It has grown into a mighty tree.
William Barton and Veronique Serret in Heartland for Sydney Festival.
Credit:Jacquie Manning
William Barton and Veronique Serret are unique in their respective fields. As a virtuoso didgeridoo player and musical polymath, Barton explodes the traditional instrument’s range. As a classically-trained violinist who glides seamlessly between different music worlds, Serret plays with an exhilarating sense of limitless possibilities. Together, it adds up to something quite special.
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Ormond Street is a classic, buttoned-down, Paddington neighbourhood, lined with Audis and Land Rovers in front of tastefully renovated multimillion-dollar terraces, each tightly sealed behind heavily barred doors and windows.
All, that is, apart from Number 45, whose door is flung wide open to the world on this humid summer morning.
This is Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ former home, left by the great composer in trust to allow selected musicians a 12-month rent-free residency to work on their craft.
William Barton and Veronique Serret are set to present an hour-long collaboration at the Sydney Festival.
Credit:Steven Siewert
The 2020 residents are didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton and extraordinary violinist Veronique Serret, partners in life and music. That open door is a perfect metaphor for their generosity and desire to engage and collaborate with everything around them – to invite all-comers into their world.
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