EVENING CONCERT
~QUEENSLAND CONSERVATORIUM GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY~
IAN HANGER RECITAL HALL
7:30 PM OCTOBER 17TH 2024
Unrequited
Georgia D’Arcy
“Unrequited love is beautiful. Yes, it’s incredibly painful but it’s also so pure. Loving with no expectations. Just loving. That’s the most beautiful thing in the world.”
- Riddhi Mehra
This piece was greatly inspired by these words and explores the different sides and layers of an unrequited love. Even though an unrequited love can be lonely and painful, at the end of the day it is still love, and that in and of itself is something very special and beautiful.
Flute: Amy Tashjian
Oboe: Liam Robinson
Clarinet: Hamish Cassidy
Horn: Thomas Montague
Bassoon: Jake Busby
A Comrade’s Final Dance
William Canning
A man begins a new chapter in his life, but before leaving spends his last night dancing and having fun with his friends, rememebering all the good times he had as he shares on final dance with them all. A joyous occasion that shares some mournful moments, he will never forget how much fun he had with his friends on his final night as a fellow comrade. Inspired by Jewish Klezmer music, this piece is meant to be fun and joyful, reflecting the style of Klezmer music.
Violin
1: Mirage Hunter Demecs
Violin 2: Kate Stone
Viola: Jasmine Smith
Cello: Andrew Udal
Bass: Thomas Allan
The Fallen Hero
Russell Dunnett
Inspired by Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. What does it mean to be a hero?
The Fallen Hero is a work that is part of a larger project - The Stormlight Archive Suite. It is inspired by the idea that there is sometimes a very fine line between a hero and a villain, and that sometimes heroes can fall and become the very thing they fight against.
Violin: Lauren Moon
Cello: Faith Spriggs
Piano: Max Bühner
Moonlight Through My Window
Danika James
Leaving my curtains open after dark allows me to gaze into the empty street in the dead of night, while moonlight trickles into my bedroom window, providing a dim light. By the moonlight, I sit on my bed, and enjoy the solitude and quiet after everyone else has gone to sleep. Whether it be stars twinkling overhead, grey, overcast clouds, or brief, violent storms, this piece moves through the world outside my window, as it changes and evolves every night. The beautiful, calm, silent atmosphere of the middle of the night. But still, there's just something a little unsettling about knowing you're the only one awake for miles.
Violin: Imogen Revill
Viola: Jasmine Smith
Piano: Artemii Safonov
Breathe
Mark Sims
A short breakup song inspired by midwest emo and math rock music, but with noticeably less guitars and whiny/ screaming vocals. Odd time signatures and colourful chords remain.
Voice: Charlene Cloud Tan Piano: Artemii Safonov
Breathe
text by Mark Sims
Take a moment
Don’t you see
It’s all gone
Dead and buried
You’ve come too late
To right your wrongs
Don’t you know
You don’t belong
Take a moment
Can’t you feel
Your secrets
Being revealed
You’ve left too soon
To free yourself
Don’t you know
You’re just someone else
You can’t breathe without me
You can’t go on alone
But it’s too far gone
And I don’t love you anymore
Itch
Toby Rochester
“Itch” is a work for solo piano that aims to explore themes of performance discomfort and anxiety through the use of semi-random self-imposed “breaks” in the performance: where normally the performer (me! :D) would be forced to continue play through physical discomfort or itching, in this case they will be permitted to succumb to any such distractions via halting one or both hands. My goal is to create a harmonically and texturally cohesive improvisation throughout these pauses, built on spontaneous interruption.
Piano: Toby Rochester
How The Saturday’s Going / Beauty & Terror
Charlene Cloud Tan
How was the Saturday going? Horribly, terribly, vegetably. It elaborates on this gloom using intricately assigned emotions. The directions contribute to both the humour and apathetic irreverence of the speaker, who truly and simply would like the Saturday in question to be over.
Set to text by Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, Beauty and Terror navigates the use of only three pitches per section to convey natures of feeling, emotion, and action, however genuine or insidious. Performance directions in the ending section directly call to the performer to “choose their own adventure” and dictate the piece’s conclusion.
Both pieces are exercises in pointed performance directions, through 'song exercises' inspired by templates from Gerardo Dirié.
Voice:
Charlene Cloud Tan
How The Saturday’s Going
text by Charlene Cloud Tan
This is turning out to be a bummer of a Saturday. This is turning out to be a BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be a BIG, BIG bummer of a Saturday. This is turning out to be a REALLY BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be a SUPER DUPER BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be an ENDLESSLY BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be an UNEXPECTEDLY BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be an APPROACHING ÜBER BIG bummer of a Saturday.
This is turning out to be a HORRIBLY TERRIBLY VEGETABLY BIG bummer of a Saturday. This is turning out to be a SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICALLY INDUBITABLY BIG bummer of a Saturday.
Beauty & Terror
text by Rainer Maria Rilke
Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final