Musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform a curated program in response to Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality and Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape, featuring music by Chinese and Australian composers exploring elemental forces of earth, air and beyond.
Includes an introduction by NGV curator Annika Aitken.
Program
Tan Dun, Symphony of Colours: Terracotta (excerpt)
Tan Dun, In Distance
Brenton Broadstock, And no birds sing
Julian Yu, Scintillation II
Maria Grenfell, These dark notes drifting
Robert Cossom, New Work (World Premiere)
Speaker
Annika Aitken, Curatorial Project Officer, Asian Art, NGV
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