Musical Mavericks is an examination of classical music with Australia’s and the world’s greatest living composers.
Presenting the compositions of Pärt, Kats-Chernin, Gorecki, Farr, Adams, Sculthorpe, Hosokawa, Glass, Adès, Golijov, Hindson, MacMillan, Meale, and Roumain in one Festival program is admittedly ambitious, but only through such an analysis of the contemporary classical milieu can we appreciate the direction in which this 21st Century is heading musically.
Events showing
Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears)
An Opera in Three Images.
The Spanish Civil War, 1936: one of the 2,137 civilians in Granada murdered by the Fascists was Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain’s revered poet, musician and playwright who dared to speak of freedom.
Already it is Dusk
In this further celebration of Musical Mavericks, the ASQ tackles three important compositions from three corners of the globe.
Book of Longing
A new work by Philip Glass based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen, co-commissioned by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts.
DBR & The Mission
Composer, concert and club performer, violinist, and bandleader, the neopolymath DBR (Daniel Bernard Roumain) creates dramatic, soul-inspiring pieces that stretch music’s boundaries and break down its disparate barriers.
Dharma at Big Sur
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, John Adams, was commissioned to write this opus for the 2003 opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new concert hall.
Enchantment
Additional concert, Australian String Quartet with guest artists Ilya Konovalov, violin and Kristian Chong, piano.
Living Toys
Welcome to a playground of musical riches, as the ASO takes on four of the most compelling contemporary classicists.
Miserere
One of Australia’s most accomplished and respected choirs gives full voice to three inspirational works in the soaring majesty of St Peter’s Cathedral.
Ornette Coleman
For more than five decades, alto saxophonist/ composer, Ornette Coleman, has played a seminal role in American music.
