Pianist and curator Anna Goldsworthy will mentor ANAM musicians as they create a concert experience that explores the complex history of the Abbotsford Convent. Our musicians will also work in collaboration with Dylan Thomas prize-winning author, and former Convent tenant, Nam Le, who has been commissioned by ANAM to write a poem that will inform the project.
“Of course there is no single version of the Convent’s history, but a clamorous polyphony. In this project the young musicians of ANAM seek to give partial voice to this. It is a privilege for them to work with a writer of the stature of Nam Le, who over recent years has articulated a poetic geography of Melbourne, and now sets his sights on the Convent, with a poem ‘that evokes some of these ghosts – through the personal prism of my time there.’ Taking this poem as catalyst, our young musicians devise a musical response to the rich, charged history of the Convent, and some of its hauntings.” – Anna Goldsworthy
Hildegard VON BINGEN Liturgical Song
Caroline SHAW Entr’acte (selections)
Johann Sebastian BACH arr. ALLEN Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesus Christ BWV 639
Alfred SCHNITTKE Hymnus III
György LIGETI String Quartet No.1, viii. Subito prestissimo
Kate MOORE Sensitive Spot
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Musical Toys (selections)
Robert SCHUMANN Kinderszenen (selections)
Olivier MESSIAEN Vingts regards sur l’enfant Jesus, iv. Regard de la Vierge
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude from Prelude and Fugue in C
BACH/GOUDNOD Ave Maria
John TAVENER arr. O’MALLEY The Lamb
Anna Goldsworthy director/piano
Nam Le author
ANAM Musicians
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