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20. styczeń 2003
Sydney Festival
The Sydney Opera House
Australia
CLOSE YOUR LITTLE EYES
World premiere, the festival commission presents
Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history.
Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history. |
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Four Play, Sydney Children's Choir and Melissa Madden Gray
A new work by Max Lyandvert. |
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Installation "Selektion - Neunter November Nacht ", between Museum Ludwig and the Dome of Cologne
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 09.Nov.1988
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The simple melody of the lullaby Close your Little Eyes from the Vilnius ghetto inspired acclaimed Australian composer Max Lyandvert to create a work for string quartet, children's choir and soloist, a work that pays homage to the suffering of innocent children in time of war. All children, all war.
Four Play with soloist Melissa Maden Gray and members of the Sydney Children's Choir premiere this work for Sydney Festival within the intimate space of The Studio at the Sydney Opera House. Poems and novels, films and photographs, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history. Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history. The resonance of this powerfully staged music-installation builds as ritual-like formations and ceremonies interact with wrap-around projections. Simple objects - books, copper piano wires, a siren - become powerful metaphors. White light recedes into darkness. The audience too becomes part of the piece, invited to move in and around the performance space, experiencing the work from many viewpoints. Close your Little Eyes is a work for 16 children (choir), string quartet and female soloist. It is in five movements. Max Lyandvert is leading theatre composer and a director. He has scored numerous productions for all the major theatre companies in Australia as well as New York and Germany. |
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WHERE:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House WHEN: 8pm, January 20th -25th DURATION: 1 hour, no interval PRICE: Full $35, Conc $28 Under 30 price - $30 Booking fees apply BOOKINGS: Festival Ticketek - 02 9266 4826 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 Online: www.sydneyfestival.org.au |
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HOLOCAUST, THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES
A dark new stage production mixes images of innocence and brutality
20. January 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald SYDNEY FESTIVAL Harriet Cunningha - The child stares out from the publicity photos, skin white with dust and eyes expressionless. In a society fluent in the language of news media it's almost impossible not to interpret the blank face of Gottfried Helnwein's photo Child1: it becomes a symbol of lost innocence and silent accusation. The show this image promotes, Close Your Little Eyes, is a music theatre-installation devised by composer and director Max Lyandvert. Taking as its starting point a lullaby from the Vilnius Ghetto, it juxtaposes visual and sound images with music scored for 16-voice children's choir, string quartet and soprano soloist. |
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Installation "Selektion - Neunter November Nacht , Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1988
