Program
CHOPIN Nocturne No.7
CRUMB Black
Angels: Bones and Flutes
DEAN Dispersal
DEBUSSY Syrinx
FELDMAN Three
Voices: Slow Waltz
LEIFS Quartetto
III, “El Greco”: Mvt.4
SCHUBERT Symphony
No.8, "Unfinished": Mvt. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH The
Age of Gold: Polka
SIBELIUS Kuolema:
Scenes with Cranes, Scene VI
TOGNETTI Battle
for the Crowd, Mosh Maggot, Chorale, Rain, Ecstasis, Bells, Train
TRAD. ICELANDIC
(arr. Stearne) Fagurt er í Fjörðum
Footage by Jon Frank projected onto a big screen onstage.
Artists
Richard Tognetti Director & Violin
Jon Frank Film
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Australian National Academy
of Music Orchestra
Cantillation (Sydney performance only)
The Consort of Melbourne (Melbourne performance only)
Peter Tregear Co-Artistic Director
Warren Trevelyan-Jones Co-Artistic Director
Breath-taking footage by cinematographer Jon Frank is projected onto the big screen while almost a hundred musicians
and singers perform a live score of music from Chopin to Shostakovich. Frank’s tilt-shift, time-lapse
and slow motion footage of crowds from all walks of life includes wild music-festival mosh pits, passionate soccer fans and
busy urban landscapes.
Richard Tognetti writes:
“What is it we feel when part of a crowd? Is it fear or empowerment? Do we lose ourselves, or find our real
selves? Is a crowd a mob, an ignorant mass of unthinking beings? Or is it an intelligent body, capable of thought processes
and invention of which individuals alone would not be capable? We spend much of our life in crowds: when we go to the football
or attend a concert, when we cross the street at peak hour, when we worship, mourn, protest or feast, we often do so as part
of a crowd. The Crowd examines the nature of the crowd, in its many manifestations, both human and in the natural world.”
With almost a hundred people on stage, two thousand in the audience and countless thousands from all walks of life
projected onto the big screen, it's time for you to join the crowd.
The Melbourne performance of The Crowd is a co-presentation with Australian National Academy of Music and Melbourne Festival.
