Poetic Intelligence

POETRY INTO MULTIPLE VOICES

Premiering two vocal-poetic cycles for choir and solo voices:

Andrée Greenwell THREE PIECES (2021) (Felicity Plunkett, Rilke, Ross Gibson), David Howell INTO THE NIGHT BEFORE THE SUN SONGS OF TRAVEL (2022) (Dan Christie)

with choruses of

Keith Humble (Wen Ting-Yung), György Ligeti (Hölderlin), Graham Hair (Alan Gould), Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Wallace Stevens), Helen Gifford (Akhmatova, Kathleen Raine, Elizabeth Riddell), Rainer Linz (John Jenkins, Ted Hopkins, Paul Greene), Carl Vine (Thomas Campion), Philippe Hersant (diverse poets)

‘Musical intelligence' has its place among the multiple kinds of intelligence identified in the late 20th century. Musical sound can also take in other forms of thinking, as explored in this pair of concerts. The automated processes of the preceding program are followed here by the particular intelligence of poems, entering into choral sound

supported by the City of Melbourne and Creative Australia