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Essential Grevillea Series 2024 – No. 1

For the first concert in our Grevillea Ensemble 2024 Season we presented a program of art songs, all from Australian composers in collaboration with Australian poets writing about Australia.

We were privileged to have two of these composers actually in the audience at this concert - Richard Charlton and John Peterson.

Programme:

  • Richard Charlton: Statues (Kenneth Slessor)

    • The Statues Awake

    • Venus and Apollo

    • Flowers

    • The Ghosts of Flesh

    • Reality

  • Margaret Sutherland: Six Australian Songs (Judith Wright)

    • Midnight

    • Winter Kestral

    • The Old Prison

    • Woman's Songs

    • The Twins

    • Bullocky

  • John Peterson: Of Quiet Places (Michelle Morgan)

    • Awinya, Fraser Island

    • On the Woralie Track

    • Wathumba, Fraser Island

    • Rocks, Cape Leeunwin

    • Forest at Namadgi

  • Ian Cooper: First Person Feminine (Jane Adamson)

    • All month the wind blows

    • Tell your sisters why you laugh

    • Did you see her at the mirror

    • That tree that scrapes against the house

    • You tell me I should leave

    • In a country far away

    • When you're my age dear

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