Astra Choir + friends: Kelly, Greenwell, Schumann, Berg & more
Sun 29 October @ 17:00 - 19:00
$10 – $35NEIL KELLY, WORKS 1991-2021: A RETROSPECTIVE AND A RUSSIAN GUITAR
A new commission, Sing for me my seven string companion, centres on a rare instrument: a 7-string semistrunka Russian guitar from the early 20th Century recently acquired by Neil Kelly, which formerly belonged to the legendary Don Cossack Choir 1925-1939. There are a number of inscriptions on the guitar – melodic fragments, quotations. Extending from these, the new work aims to harness the guitar's history and musical energy, building a choral-instrumental fabric to capture elements of the Eastern European folk singing genre.