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The University of Sydney |
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2pm Sunday 2 March 2008 in the Quadrangle |
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Lyn Fuller, Meryl Bollard & Lorraine Gatehouse |
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Canberra |
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Music and Poetry: the Language of the Soul |
This program celebrates the life and work of Judith Wright (1915-2000). Her poems are interspersed with carillon music. Judith was a writer, an environmentalist and an activist for Aboriginal rights, who probed the Nation’s soul.
| Carillon: Flourish, by Lyn Fuller (1946- ) |
| Introduction: Meryl |
| Carillon: To a Wild Rose, by Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Carillon: Canon in D (an adaptation), by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) |
| Poem: Reminiscence (Lorraine) |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Carillon: The Little Shepherd Part 1, by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) |
| Poem: Child and Wattle Tree (Lorraine) |
| Carillon: The Little Shepherd Part 2, by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) |
| Narration: Lorraine |
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Carillon: Lake Music, by Terry Vaughan (1915-96)
(written for the inauguration of the Canberra Carillon by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 26 April 1970) |
| Narration: Lorraine |
| Poem: Song (Meryl) |
| Narration: Lorraine |
| Poem: Eli Eli (Meryl) |
| Carillon: Finlandia, by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) |
| Poem: Silence (Lorraine) |
| Narration: Meryl |
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Poems: The Wagtail (Meryl);
Magpies (Lorraine) |
| Carillon: A Little Song Op. 27, No.1, by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-87) |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Carillon: To a Wild Rose, by Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) |
| Poem: The Forest—A Dedication (Lorraine) |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Poem: Two Dreamtimes — for Kath Walker (Lorraine) |
| Carillon: La Cloche Sonne (The Bell Tolls), by Franz Liszt (1811-86) |
| Narrations: Meryl, Lorraine |
| Poem: Birds |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Carillon: To a Wild Rose, by Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) |
| Narration: Meryl |
| Carillon: Ubi Caritas (Where there is love there is God): Taize Chant |
| Poem: Prayer (Lorraine) |
| Carillon: Prelude in D minor BWV999, by J S Bach (1685-1750) |
We are particularly grateful to Meredith McKinney, Judith Wright’s daughter, for her generosity in giving permission for her mother’s writings to be used on this occasion. Readers and narrators Meryl Bollard & Lorraine Gatehouse are from the Gathering Place, Dickson ACT. Rosemary & Geoff McCubbin provide ground-to-tower communication. All carillon arrangements by Lyn Fuller, Carillonist at the National Carillon, Canberra.
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Last updated 8 December 2007. |
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