Opus Now Holiday Special: Novak's Ceremony + Beethoven's SQ Op. 132

Opus Now #35 explores music from leading practitioners in the field of experimental, informed classical and contemporary music

OPUS NOW #35 + Novak Manojlovic

Where: Temple on the Park, Australia Street, Newtown

When: Saturday December 13h • Start time 1pm (Doors open 12:30pm)

Tickets: GA $25

ARTISTS

Ceremony

Novak Manojlovic, composer, various intruments,

Ken Allars, Alex Raupach; trumpets

David Reglar, Billy Ward; woodwinds

Yutaro Okuda; guitar

Max Alduca; double bass

Miles Thomas; drums

Opus Now String Quartet

Kristian Winther violin

Hannah Kim violin

Liz Woolnough viola

Chris Pidcock cello

PROGRAMME

Ludwig van Beethoven (1685–1750)

String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (1825)

I. Assai sostenuto – Allegro
II. Allegro ma non tanto
III. “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart”
(“Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode”) – Molto adagio – Andante
IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace (attacca)
V. Allegro appassionato

interval

Novak Manojlovic

Ceremony Suite

CEREMONY is the most recent work of award winning Sydney-based composer, pianist and improvisor Novak Manojlovic. Off the back of his recent collaboration with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, CEREMONY sees Manojlovic return to the notions of community which have been the foundation of his artistic oeuvre. Originally commissioned as a wedding gift to a close friend, this new suite of music - performed by an ensemble of long term friends and collaborators - interrogates the intrinsic folkloric nature of performance by exploring the profundity of the acoustic instrument, of sound, of ritual, of space, of hearth, of the symbiotic relationship between audience/performer and the abiding truism of music as gift.

"The musical highlight of the evening...ravishing..." - Limelight Magazine

Preparation and performance for this concert will take place on Gadigal land, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Keep the fire burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.