FIRST
LIGHT
Australian Series
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This program explores the ineffable and poetic relationship between artists and their art, celebrating the mystery of musical creation. 

‘Burruguu is all around us,’ writes Yuwaalaraay composer and storyteller Nardi Simpson: ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’. In this spacious work, Simpson stretches our perception of time, musing on both the expansive Aboriginal Dreaming and the precise moment in which a musical work is realised. 

In Light for the First Time, percussionist, drummer and composer Bree van Reyk invites us to imagine a near-universal yet forgotten experience: opening one’s eyes for the first time. Our experience of time slows down in this exquisite musical meditation: a shimmering, abstract expression of ‘the sight of a being which is yet to be born’. 

The Heart’s Ear evolves from a single fragment of Sufi melody. Virtuosic yet earthy and organic, this striking work by Liza Lim explores the attentive silence that permeates the poetry of thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi: ‘a state of listening with ‘the heart’s ear’’. 

This program also features a new commission from Natalie Williams.

Artists

Jessica Cottis Curator
Doreen Cumming Violin 
Brad Tham Violin 
Tahlia Petrosian Viola 
Patrick Suthers Cello
Kiri Sollis Flute 
Matthew O'Keefe Clarinets 
Veronica Bailey Percussion 
Edward Neeman Piano 
Craig Greening Electronics 

Repertoire

Nardi Simpson Burruguu (Time of Creation)
Bree Van Reyk Light for the First Time
Natalie Williams Light Visions, World premiere, new CSO commission
Liza Lim The Heart’s Ear


Duration
70 minutes
When
Thu 12 SEP at 6:30PM
Venue
Canberra NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA (GANDEL ATRIUM)
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Ticket Prices
$65–72Adults
$59–66Concession (means-tested pensioners, full-time students)
$35Under 35
$16Student rush

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