New Song Cycles - Lawrence Whiffin at 80 - Michael Bertram at 75Jerzy Kozlowski (bass) and Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) Saturday 19 June & Sunday 20 June, 6 pm This concert brings together as a duo for the first time two frequent and admired contributors to Astra concerts, in a program that celebrates milestones of two of Melbourne’s senior composers. Solo bass Jerzy Kozlowski gives his third Astra recital, following highly successful earlier recitals of Shostakovich’s two late song cycles, which inspired the two composers to write these new song cycles specifically for his voice. Michael Bertram has chosen a sequence of poems printed in the London Underground. Lawrence Whiffin continued a long association with local poet George Genovese to generate the poems for his cycle, extending across a broad range of style and expression. Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey extends the 80th year celebration of Lawrence Whiffin with the composer’s Piano Sonata No.1, written almost a half-century earlier in an explosion of energy as a young musician in Paris. SEATING IS LIMITED AND BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL - PH. 9326 5424 E. info@astramusic.org.au |
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Further Astra concerts in 20103. NEW SONG CYCLES – Jerzy Kozlowski & Michael Kieran Harvey - 19 & 20 June - Eleventh Hour Theatre 4. MINDS AT PLAY – Scientific cantata, string games, choral experiment - 10 October - Fitzroy Town Hall 5. SYMPHONIC TO CHAMBER – perspectives from Beethoven and Yeats - 5 December - Northcote Town Hall
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