Lumen Winter 2023 - Flipbook - Page 40
Elder Hall relaunched
By Anna Goldsworthy
In April 2023, we launched a refurbished
Elder Hall, thanks to the generosity of
our community through the Take a Seat
fundraising campaign.
To celebrate, the Elder Conservatorium of
Music presents our 2023 concert series,
Awakenings.
Our mission at the Elder Conservatorium is
to awaken the artistry of the next generation
of musicians across the genres of classical,
jazz, music theatre, composition, popular
music, and sonic arts. But it is also to
awaken future audiences and music-lovers.
Our season’s theme speaks to music’s
great power to awaken us all: emotionally,
spiritually, sensually, intellectually.
In a program that spans the Baroque era
until today, we present much-loved classics
ranging from Beethoven’s Eroica symphony
to Miles Davies’ Kind of Blue.
Over recent years, many of us have been
waking up to the rich legacy of female
composers, and we are thrilled this year
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to be presenting works by Dorothy Fields,
Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Fanny
Mendelssohn, Valerie Coleman, Sally
Beamish, Moya Henderson, Caroline Shaw
and Holly Harrison, with premieres by
Brodie King and our own Anne Cawrse.
Many of our performers are well-known
faces to our audiences, particularly the
wonderful staff and student musicians from
the Elder Conservatorium. We are delighted
also to welcome a number of visitors for
the first time, and in April, we presented
the first ever collaboration between our
thriving Music Theatre program and the
Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
in Leonard Bernstein’s lively tribute to his
beloved New York, On the Town.
It is a privilege to present acclaimed
performers from around Australia and the
world alongside the musicians of tomorrow,
and we invite the broader University of
Adelaide community to share this journey
with us. Details on are on our website.
Professor Anna Goldsworthy is Director of the
Elder Conservatorium of Music.
Other events
The University of Adelaide looks
forward to an exciting calendar of
events in the second half of 2023.
Alumni receptions will be held
in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam,
China, US, UK and Europe. Plans
are currently underway for a ‘Back
to Campus’ reunion event in spring
2023, for the graduating classes of
1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013.
We are eager to connect with
our global alumni community
at upcoming events and in the
lead up to the University’s 150th
anniversary in 2024.
Make sure you update your details
so you don’t miss out on future
events and invitations.
www.adelaide.edu/alumni.
For a full list of upcoming events,
visit www.adelaide.edu/events
