Commissioned by Faber Music, through the patronage of Peter Sculthorpe, as part of their Millennium Series, this decade-old composition for modified chamber orchestra was finally premiered on June 15th by Stephen Drury and the Callithumpian Consort in one of the featured concerts of New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice. It seeks to outline a perceptual change towards bushfires in Australia, from anger and despair at their rampaging nature, to the realization that- through “firestick farming”- they are an integral part of Australian life.
http://www.sicpp.org/concerts.html
http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2009/06/18/classical-music-review-it%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98sick-puppy%E2%80%99-time/
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Strangely I am currently developing a fire management project in NSW called Fire Sticks.
ReplyDeleteI thought finding this was an interesting twist!!
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