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Thirteen Ways to Look At Birds

Ticket Information

  • A Reserve | Standard: $69.00 each
  • A Reserve | Concession: $64.00 each
  • A Reserve | City Recital Hall Member: $59.00 each
  • A Reserve | Under 30: $40.00 each
  • B Reserve | Standard: $59.00 each
  • B Reserve | Concession: $54.00 each
  • B Reserve | City Recital Hall Member: $49.00 each
  • B Reserve | Under 30: $40.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Sat 1 Jun 2019, 7:30pm–8:25pm

Restrictions

All Ages

Listed by

joannp6

Birds have fascinated poets for centuries, not just for their song and flight but as symbols: of hope, freedom, love, communication, peace, luck good and bad, and migration. And what better way to honour them than by sending songs out into the air?

In a new song cycle stemmed from an idea by Anna Goldsworthy, Australian music legend Paul Kelly and leading Australian composer James Ledger have written thirteen new songs and soundscapes inspired by birds. Using the words of John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A.D. Hope and others, each poem is its own world—delicate and intimate at times, colossal and soaring at others, with all states in between.

For one performance only, Paul Kelly and James Ledger will be joined by celebrated piano trio Seraphim (Anna Goldsworthy - piano, Helen Ayres - violin and Tim Nankervis - cello) and singer-songwriter Alice Keath to create a unique marriage of electronics, acoustic instruments and the human voice, celebrating winged creatures from the barn owl to the nightingale, from the thornbill to the falcon, from the magpie to the swan.

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