UQ Art Museum Public Programs: 'Capital and Country' lunchtime music program.
Event Details
- Date:
- Saturday, 08 August 2015 - Sunday, 01 November 2015
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- UQ Location:
- James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)
- URL:
- www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Gillian Ridsdale
- Phone:
- 67793
- Email:
- g.ridsdale@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- The University of Queensland Art Museum
Event Description
- Full Description:
- To accompany the National Gallery of Australia exhibition 'Capital and country: the Federation years 1900–1914', we invite you to enjoy our first curated lunchtime music program. You are welcome to bring your lunch, but please do not take any food or drink out of the foyer.
A note from curator, Ben Heim, UQ School of Music
In curating this music program, I focused on the nature of the exhibition 'Capital and Country: the Federation years 1900–1914', and sought to mirror the artistic output, contained within a musical aesthetic that is representative of the period. As the exhibition features Australian painters residing in England, France and Australia, I selected works that were composed in these locales, between 1900 and 1914. These works have been blended together to create a seamless mix of music that shifts between very different genres, while creating an immersive sound world, within which the exhibition can be experienced.
This blanket of music is affected by the inclusion of transitional snippets of music, composed by myself, which can be seen as a background fog, from which the various other pieces emerge. In the middle of the work, this background fog takes the foreground in the form of a soundscape composition, in which I sought to capture a contemporary impression of the Australian landscapes depicted in the exhibition. This section serves as an evocative juxtaposition to the music of the time, but is composed in such a way that listeners will hear many parallels to the remainder of the program, and find resonances to the works in the 'Capital and Country' exhibition. I hope you enjoy this listening experience.
List of Works (excerpts):
Fredrick Septimus Kelly (Australia): Elegy ‘In Memorium Rupert Brooke’ (1914)
Claude Debussy (Paris): 'Les Sons et les parfums tournet dans l’air du soir' (1909)
Percy Grainger (England/Australia): 'Colonial Song' (1911)
Eric Satie (Paris): 'Musique d'ameublement' (1913)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams (London): 'London Symphony' (1912–1913)
Ben Heim (Australia): 'Sunrise Soundscape' (2015)
Fredrick Delius (England): 'A Song of the High Hills' (1911)
Eric Satie (Paris): 'Danse de Travers' (1901)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams (London): 'Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis' (1910)
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- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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