Originally posted at Limelight Magazine:
Ex-pats Kelly Lovelady and Ruthless Jabiru plan to play one of the composer’s final commissions.
Originally posted at Limelight Magazine:
Ex-pats Kelly Lovelady and Ruthless Jabiru plan to play one of the composer’s final commissions.
Peter Sculthorpe Djilile (Excerpt)
Performed by Ruthless Jabiru, Kelly Lovelady conductor
City of London Festival, LSO St Luke’s, London, July 2011
Remix and video by Kelly Lovelady
Originally posted at Kelly Lovelady:
Last month the first anniversary of Peter Sculthorpe’s passing quietly slipped by. Some of you may remember back in 2012 when Peter accepted my commission to write a collection of miniatures for my chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru. Although Postcards from Jabiru was never completed, Peter’s sketches for the piece still leave us with something rich – his own impression of where we should go from here.
Peter spoke to me years ago of the gentle jabiru and its mesmeric leggy gait but through this project I think he wanted me to see the duality of Jabiru – as equally a pin in the map, a land, a people, a place from which postcards are sent – and a conversation starter about open pit uranium mining within Kakadu…
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We are now crowdfunding to support a unique realisation of Peter Sculthorpe’s final unfinished work in an historic London event one year on from his passing.
Press release: https://www.relevantnow.com/stories/sneakbee/361