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Bach Akademie Australia

Bach: A Child of the Stars

When

Friday 22 September 2023 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Cost

A reserve adult: $95.00B reserve adult: $80.00A reserve pensioner: $85.00B reserve pensioner: $70.00B reserve Under 30: $40.00

Join Bach Akademie Australia for their third concert series of 2023 featuring the Bach Akademie Australia Orchestra and Choir.

To truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples of Australia have seen every day for millennia – the Morning Star.

We are an ensemble dedicated to the works of J.S. Bach, however we are Bach Akademie Australia, therefore seek to unite the incredibly important musical cultures of Europe with the country we stand on by presenting a program of music by Bach and other important composers inspired by the heavens, alongside a newly commissioned work by Australian Indigenous composer Troy Russell, inspired by the Morning Star, just as J.S. Bach was centuries ago.

Program:

  • J.S. Bach Cantata ‘Himmelskönig, sei willkommen’ BWV 182 – Sinfonia

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria O Magnum Mysterium

  • Presentation by Professor Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn ‘Galileo, Bach and the western view of the heavens’

  • Vincenzo Galilei Excerpts from the Well Tempered Lute [Tommie Andersson – Lute]

  • Presentation by Uncle Jimmy Smith about indigenous astronomy

  • Troy Russell Clans

  • J.S. Bach Cantata ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’ BWV 1

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