Ensemble Offspring
Tehillim 2009
April 9, 2009 | 7:30pm
Steve Reich’s Tehillim is an ecstatic celebration on the universal theme of joy and divine love. Featuring living Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Damien Ricketson’s works Threnody and In God’s Esperanto, the program is counterbalanced by Reich’s classic Music for Pieces of Wood.
Presented by the Melbourne Recital Centre as a part of Walk to the Field of Stars.
Details
Date
April 9, 2009
Time
7:30pm
Venue
Melbourne Recital Centre
31 Sturt St, Southbank
Melbourne,
VIC
3006
Australia
Program
Damien Ricketson – In God’s Esperanto (poetry by Christopher Wallace-Crabbe)
Steve Reich – Music for Pieces of Wood
Peter Sculthorpe – Threnody
Steve Reich – Tehillim
Performers
Roland Peelman (Conductor)
HALCYON
Alison Morgan, Jenny Duck-Chong, Jo Burton & Lindy Montgomery
ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING
James Cuddeford, Emma West, Maria Lindsay, Sophie Cole (violin)
James Eccles & Nicole Forsyth (viola)
Pat Murphy & GeoffREY Gartner (cello)
Mardi Chillingworth (bass)
Diana Springford & Jason Noble (clarinet)
Sally Walker & Lamorna Nightingale (flute)
Ngaire de Korte & Shefali Prior (oboe)
Rob Llewellyn (bassoon)
Guy du Blet, Timothy Constable, Eugene Ughetti, Vanessa Tomlinson, Rob Cossom, Evan Pritchard (percussion)
Sally Whitwell & Clemens Leske (organ)