Excerpt 1: Martin Friedel, Radium, from “Conversations Before the Silence” (1990)

Marie Curie and Pierre Curie: “Turn out the light… listen to the heartbeat of the universe”

Friday August 10 & Saturday August 11 1990

South Melbourne Town Hall

Jan Friedl (soprano), Graeme Wall (tenor), Reg Ellery (baritone), the Astra Choir and ensemble conducted by John McCaughey with Sally Mays, solo piano.

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For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building. The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.

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