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.

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

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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