Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: May 2022 – Staring Skyward
Cameron Lam started out looking at the sky and pondering the stars, but his thoughts quickly turned to contemplations of death, mourning, bird song, and distant landscapes.
Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.
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Very well said, Felicity.
If music programmers do not create concerts by living Australian composers, our future history will be wiped out. We have already lost so much music from over the past 50 years that has only ever received one playing.
New music will bring new audiences. When will the major orchestras wake up?