... The Astra Choir, 16 soloists and electronics conducted by John McCaughey
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Sunday May 23, 2004
WILLIAMSTOWN TOWN HALL
Carl Vine at 50:
CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL WORKS
with music by
Monteverdi, Lou Harrison, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio
Among the largest and most original-looking local town halls in the State, Williamstown became a concert setting for a spacious display of compositions around the 50th anniversary Australian composer, Carl Vine.
...Flederman Ensemble:Geoffrey Collins (flute), Christian Wojtowicz (cello), Simone de Haan (trombone), Graeme Leak (percussion), Carl Vine & Graham Hair (keyboards); with Jeffrey Crellin (oboe). Vocal soloists: Cindy John, Hartley Newnham, David Ashton-Smith, Peter Cox. The Astra Choir conducted by John McCaughey.
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Music always interacts with the architecture in which it is heard.
Melbourne has some wonderful acoustic environments. Often, these spaces were built for other purposes – for example the splendid public and ecclesiastical buildings from the first 100 years of the city’s history, and more recent industrial constructions.
Exploiting ‘non-customized’ spaces for musical performance celebrates and explores our architectural heritage.
For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building.
The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.
In this story take a tour of some of Melbourne’s intimate, hidden spaces and listen to the music that has filled their walls.
For further information about Astra Chamber Music Society click here.
