Remembrance
Event Date: 14/11/2015, 07:30 pm
The Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra presents
The concert will premiere ‘Remembrance Odyssey’ - a choral and orchestral work specially commissioned by the KPO to commemorate Gallipoli.
Composed by Brendan Collins who worked with librettist Justin Fleming, the piece was inspired by the book “Rallying the Troops”, which was published in 2014 by the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society.
Volume one of this publication gives details of Ku-ring-gai residents – soldiers, nurses as well as administrators - who played a part in WW1. Justin Fleming has selected some of these characters to tell the story.
Director of the Australian War Memorial, Dr Brendan Nelson will attend the performance and will launch the new work. The piece, which explores the meaning that the Gallipoli experience has for us in a modern context, particularly references young people.
Choirs from Barker College, Abbotsleigh and Brigidine College will participate and Phillip Heath will be the narrator, while the solo soprano is Ayse Goknur Shanala, who is of Turkish ethnicity.
The program also includes a number of other works which have been used in movies about war (such as John Williams’ Hymn to the Fallen - from Saving Private Ryan, and Peter Sculthorpe’s Small Town). The conductor will be Steven Hillinger.
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Brigidine College, 325 Mona Vale Road,
St. Ives New South Wales,2075
Brigidine College, 325 Mona Vale Road,
St. Ives New South Wales,2075
