Program - Composition Lunchtime

OUT THE NCERT

Composition Concerts are held three times a semester and feature new works from the conservatorium’s Composition Department. Please find information on upcoming composition concerts on Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s website.

ENTRY MUSIC

ULTRAVIOLET

Composed and performed by Tara Lynam

TO "BASED M BY SCELSI" ll

“Prelude to based on a poem by Scelsi” is the first section of a larger 30 minute song cycle that draws it’s material from Giacinto Scelsi’s (1908-1988)

Octologo. Scelsi was an Italian composer who is most famously associated with the concept of structuring his works around a singular pitch, the most wellknown example of this being Quattro Pezzi su una Nota Sola. The prelude is solely rendered through electronic instruments and is able to function as a standalone piece.

The first stanza of Octologo reads: Do not become opaque nor allow the others to opaque you

Performer: Benjamin Marshall

This piece is part of a series on vicarious and real memory.

Dark Castle, composed for Ensemble Opulous, invites listeners on a journey through a tranquil countryside when suddenly they are confronted by the looming presence of a ‘Dark Castle'. We enter and get lost exploring the seemingly ending labyrinth with seemingly no hope of escaping. This musical allegory asks the listener to reflect on the often overlooked aspects of life and the many things that we walk past without giving much credence. As you listen to this work take from it whatever imagery or messages it inspires and I hope you can find solace within its sound world.

ENSEMBLE OPULOUS

Oboe/Cor Anglais: Liam Robinson

Alto/Tenor Saxophone: Ryan Taylor

Bassoon: Mairin Thompson

Bb Clarinet: Bianca Cassiano

Bass Clarinet: Jan Rybka

CION

osition, ‘The Romantic Imagination’, he ideas, influences and viewpoints covered over a few months during my Romantic Imagination classes, and in my own personal readings and ruminations. This piece is the result of taking different threads from some of my favourite artists and weaving them together in one musical creation: a ‘Spiritus Mundi’ of my musical lineage. As a lover of theatrical songs, from Schubert to Sondheim, the musical theatre medium was the best way to connect my idea and musical interests with the Lieder and art song mediums of the Romantics. Starting from Beethoven’s departure from classical design with the motif from Grosse Fuge, ‘The Romantic Imagination’ features the harmonic language of Wagner, Liszt and Stravinsky, the fast paced and ‘perfect’ rhyming style of Sondheim with rap-like inner-rhyming patterns of Miranda and the introspective and humorous words of Minchin. I meditated on the many happenings in the Romantic era: the rise of the many Isms (Nationalism, Scepticism, Naturalism, etc.); the spread of Consumption and the prevailing connections between grief, illness and the artist; the battle between the mystic and the scientific; as well as the artists and art created during the period

Voice: Harry Hammett

Piano: Alex Angus

Violin: Sophia Di Lucchio

Cello: Laura Boon

TO THE

We are walked into a sleep of familiarity, where wakefulness subsides to the gravity of the unknown.

Pulled toward that midnight crescent, we are lulled passed its gates, captured by it even.

As we remember to forget the safe path home, we begin to recognise, the one who hides behind.

Violin: Lauren Mellor

Piano: Ethan Wall

BASSO CONT

Jonathan Vickers

Basso Continuo is currently a double movement piece composed for Ensemble Opulous, which develops a series of stretching melodies to fashion an evasive sound. This is the piece's first movement, in broad 3/4.

ENSEMBLE OPULOUS

Oboe/Cor Anglais: Liam Robinson

Alto/Tenor Saxophone: Ryan Taylor

Bassoon: Mairin Thompson

Bb Clarinet: Bianca Cassiano

Bass Clarinet: Jan Rybka

OUR NEXT CONCERT IS APRIL 18TH, 7:30PM