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7 MAY 2017 2 Concert Calendar Page REVOLUTION A MUSIC ADVENTURE FROM THE BARRICADES OF TIME 27 APRIL – 7 MAY 2017 2 CONCERT CALENDAR PAGE 1 OPENING GALA 7.30 pm Friday April 28 Fitters’ Workshop 7 2 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION 2.30 pm Saturday April 29 Fitters’ Workshop 11 3 JAMES MORRISON QUINTET 7.30 pm Saturday April 29 Fitters’ Workshop 13 9.30 am National Library 4 BLINKY BILL Sunday April 30 15 11 am of Australia NGA 5 STALIN’S PIANO 2 pm Sunday April 30 17 Fairfax Theatre 6 DREAMING ACROSS THE HORIZON 6.30 pm Sunday April 30 Fitters’ Workshop 19 High Court 7 RED DRAGON 11 am Monday May 1 21 of Australia 8 MOZART MILESTONES 6.30 pm Monday May 1 Fitters’ Workshop 23 Canberra Airport 9 TAKING FLIGHT 11 am Tuesday May 2 27 Atrium 10 THE LION’S ROAR 4 pm Tuesday May 2 Ainslie Arts Centre 29 11 THE VELVET REVOLUTION 6.30 pm Tuesday May 2 Fitters’ Workshop 31 National 12 HALF THE SKY 2 pm Wednesday May 3 33 Portrait Gallery 13 LAST STATEMENT 6.30 pm Wednesday May 3 Fitters’ Workshop 39 8:30 am- –– TASTE OF THE COUNTRY Thursday May 4 Annual Festival Trip 41 4.00 pm National Museum 14 HARVEST OF ENDURANCE 6.30 pm Thursday May 4 43 of Australia Canberra 15 THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION 11 am Friday May 5 45 Grammar School 16 BARRICADES OF TIME 7.30 pm Friday May 5 Fitters’ Workshop 49 17 GAME ON! 1 pm Saturday May 6 Llewellyn Hall, ANU 53 18 RUSSIAN ROOTS AND RAGS 4 pm Saturday May 6 Fitters’ Workshop 55 19 WHY DO THE NATIONS? 7.30 pm Saturday May 6 Fitters’ Workshop 57 20 BACH ON SUNDAY 11 am Sunday May 7 Fitters’ Workshop 61 NGA 21 THE ART OF SPEECH 2 pm Sunday May 7 63 Gandel Hall 22 FESTIVAL FINALE 6.30 pm Sunday May 7 Fitters’ Workshop 67 1 Message from Message from ACT Minister for the Arts Festival Patrons, & Community Services Major General the Hon. Michael Jeffery and Gordon Ramsay MLA Mrs Marlena Jeffery The Canberra International Music Festival is The arrival of our wonderful Canberra Autumn once again set to delight audiences with a with its beautiful colours, mild weather and clear vibrant fusion of music, curated within a theme air signals that time when we can once again of momentous world events and revolutions. enjoy many wide ranging musical performances as part of the very successful Canberra With an exceptional array of Australian and International Music Festival. international musicians, the Festival invites Canberrans and visitors to enjoy world class As long term supporters and new Patrons of music. Artistic Director Roland Peelman has the Festival, Marlena and I are looking forward to curated a program that showcases music celebrating music performed by superb local, by Australian composers including William national and international artists in settings Barton, Elena-Kats-Chernin and Andrew Ford, which include some of Canberra’s most iconic and by such international figures as the 2017 venues. Composer-in-residence, Chen Yi. We are particularly pleased to see that although The Festival collaborates with many national this festival is growing in stature and reputation cultural institutions, including the National each year, it retains the ambience and appeal Gallery of Australia, the National Library of of a local, community based event. As such Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and there are wonderful educational opportunities the National Museum of Australia. Harvest of provided for young local performers and those Endurance, a 50-metre, 18-panelled Chinese new to the musical profession. This will ensure scroll held by the Museum, will be celebrated in a continuation of quality performers at future a concert that offers a unique view of the scroll festivals. through 18 compositions, with a narration by Marlena and I look forward to sharing another William Yang. wonderful festival with you all. The ACT Government is proud to support the Canberra International Music Festival through the ACT Arts Fund and ACT Events Fund. I am Michael and Marlena Jeffery also pleased to see it nationally recognised through the support provided by the Australia Council for the Arts. I wish the Festival every success and encourage the community to embrace this great event. Gordon Ramsay 2 The Stuff of Revolution by Roland Peelman The historic events of 1917 in Russia, and the decree. Similarly, the disastrous leadership question whether, one hundred years later, of Nicholas I before and during WWI took this might create an excuse for celebration or Russia to the brink of economic collapse. The commiseration, form the starting points for circumstances of the war and the abject poverty this year’s Music Festival. But all through our in the cities precipitated a real revolution. Once preparation, as we witnessed the spectacle Lenin had made his way back to Petrograd, all of Brexit and Trump’s rise to power, further it took was a Bolshevik coup d’état in October analogies came into play. The Marxist uprisings 1917 to establish party dictatorship. As in France, in Latin America and their legacy, particularly all aspects of society were fundamentally in Cuba and Venezuela; the developments overhauled, though the worst excesses of state in China after the demise of its last Emperor; sponsored terror would not be felt till the mid- above all, the political tide that swept the 1930s. In comparison, the more protracted French monarchy from its magnificent perch efforts of the Reformation paved the way in Versailles. In comparison, Luther’s protest for various types of absolutist rule. God’s against the Roman establishment in 1517 opinion on the bible mattered little, as long as seemed a it granted divine rather modest, unchallenged considered power. Only gesture, the England evolved mere grievances more gradually of a meddling towards a system priest. Yet where different across Europe, layers of society it opened the jostled for favour floodgates for and influence. the spirit and Religious flames the politics of waxed and reformation, waned, as did religious or the ministrations otherwise. And of the monarch, where the quest for a pure religion became as long as the money kept flowing in from the clad in terror, that ever darker mantle of zeal, colonies. Hardly surprising,then, that the real political power games took over. Henry VIII saw revolution happened across the Atlantic. and grabbed the opportunity, only to back-pedal The American experience is exceptional, mainly once the genie was out of the bottle. because the result was a clearly described rule In all of this, money (or the lack thereof) played of law, rather than dictatorship. To this day, some a dirty, defining role. The large debt problems of the most conservative US politicians like to of the French treasury around 1780 could not call for radical change or for a ‘revolutionary’ be resolved by a regime mired in antiquated approach to the hot issues of the day without regulations and long held privileges. The blinking an eyelid. In Europe, this appropriation different strata of society, from those who had of the leftist rhetoric of revolution is a more to those who had never had, were thus pitted recent phenomenon, having gained ground on against one another, causing confusion, chaos, the back of unprecedented levels of immigration sectarianism and years of bloody terror until combined with the effects of globalization and a Napoleon imposed a new order by imperial GFC that worsened levels of inequality. Arguably, 3 the first to see that the status quo could be a sequence of medical breakthroughs and attacked from the right rather than the left was stupendous technological advances. Those Margaret Thatcher. Barely a generation later, espousing revolution in this age ironically we see how a tweeting twittering president can clamour for revisionist measures, protectionism, claim the mantle of revolution on the basis of nativism, isolationism, a return to the past. a few hollow but well targeted slogans. And we This year’s Festival thus revolves around historic all wonder how and when the steady surge of moments: 1517, 1789, 1917, 1989, the cauldrons of radical anti-immigration, isolationist and nativist change, alongside the groundswell movements movements in Europe can be halted. of the last fifty years: feminism, digitisation Europe, and the world with it, did learn from and the opening up of the internet, the latest its many revolutions - eventually. And the brainwaves in educational thinking, the end of hideous consequences of those episodes the White Australia policy. in the 20th century when democracy was Where is music in all this? The reformation tragically subverted remain etched in our brought vernacular hymns for the people into consciousness. Institutions were created, global the equation (Why do the nations? Bach on agreements reached, barriers lifted, human Sunday). The events of the French revolution rights recognized. Perhaps we may bemoan the coincided with some of the greatest music ever glacial pace of multilateral decision making, or created (Mozart in Vienna) and generated the ineffectualness of UN resolutions, or the a rationale for people’s music and a formula bureaucratic meanderings of the European for State propaganda music that proved very institutions, but the fact remains that a enduring (Barricades of Time). The Russian worldwide conflict has not occurred since revolution set the framework for those forced 1945. Thus, relative safety and progress are to work within the system (Shostakovich), and taken for granted, and the shock of random those in exile who promulgated old Russian violence, terrorist or otherwise, feeds a level of values (Rachmaninoff) or tried to purge any last cynicism, mercilessly exploited by sections of Russian residue (Stravinsky).
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