[SydPhil] Harmony of the Spheres - Musical performance, philosophy ...Book Launch

[Goetz Richter]

Thursday 9 April 6:00pm
Venue: Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 1 Macquarie Street - Sydney
Recital Hall West

Booklaunch - Harmony of the Spheres - All welcome.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/harmony-of-the-spheres-9798765157367/
This new publication edited by Ken Parry and Dean Rickles (Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney), brings together classical ideas and also takes entirely novel perspectives. Anchored in classical philosophy and religious sources reflecting Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Aboriginal, Occult, Kabbalistic, and Zoroastrian thought, this comprehensive work marks a timely revival of a perennial idea.

Musical Performances and Address by Prof. Rick Benitez. (University of Sydney)

Hildegard of Bingen, Prayer
Heather Lee, Soprano
Heather Lee is a soprano with a specialty in early and cross cultural music. Heather's projects include performances at the UN and Whitehouse, the Grammy longlisted album Beyond Karma with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet, Sweet Dreams, (ABC Classics and the Sydney Opera House), Ishq, (CD and installation for the Khalili collection of Islamic Art at the Art Gallery of NSW); Songs to RA, (Egyptian Antiquities exhibition from the Louvre); Mandala for Dawn, an orchestral and choir work commissioned and performed in New York, The Thread of Life, (international ensemble in New York for US release); The Sacred Fire, an ABC commission to sing the music of the first woman composer Hildegard of Bingen and numerous concerts and recordings. Heather has contributed to the Sonds of Space project based at Cambridge for some years.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Adagio & Fuga BWV 1001 for Solo Violin
Connie Yang, violin

Prof. Rick Benitez: Spheres of Harmony

Chabuk Savar (The Horse Rider)
Jazmourian Ensemble: Malek Mohammadi Nejad (Iranian setar), Anna McDonald (Iranian kamancheh)
The Jazmourian Ensemble was formed in 2019 in Kerman, Iran, by Malek Mohammadi Nejad, an Iranian composer and setar master, and Anna McDonald, an Australian baroque violinist who learned the Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) in Iran.   Their music draws on the mythical and artistic traditions of ancient Iran, while blending with the textures and harmonies of early western music. They are Ensemble-in-Residence at the ANU School of Music, where they teach and perform their intercultural compositions.

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The presentation is followed by a reception in the foyer.

The Event is free but registration is necessary
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