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Women鈥檚 voices, stories, and emotions in all their diversity will be the focus of a special musical event. Snapshots of Love and Life will present works by and about women 鈥� exploring an idealised domestic fantasy, a real-life musical marriage, and a contemporary feminist response to both.

Classical ensemble Seraphim Trio will perform with guest Lorina Gore, acclaimed Helpmann and Green Room award-winning Australian soprano. The concert will take place on Saturday 15 July as part of the Elder Conservatorium of Music鈥檚 2023 series Awakenings at the 成人大片.

Audiences will be treated to three carefully curated and contrasting works, including two song cycles, in an evening of thought-provoking classical music sure to mesmerise.

鈥淭he song cycle can be an intensely personal vehicle, and in its greatest iterations has often been used both to exalt romantic love, and then to lament its loss, through betrayal or distance or bereavement,鈥� said Professor Anna Goldsworthy, Director of Elder Conservatorium of Music and a member of Seraphim Trio.

鈥沦肠丑耻尘补苍苍鈥檚 Frauenliebe und leben, to a series of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, is one of music鈥檚 most tender expressions of romantic love, and I have always adored it.

鈥淗owever, its overriding message of a woman鈥檚 life being redeemed by marriage sits at odds with a contemporary sensibility. As a performer, I feel transported by this cycle; as a feminist I feel a trifle uneasy.鈥�

鈥淭he song cycle can be an intensely personal vehicle, and in its greatest iterations has often been used both to exalt romantic love, and then to lament its loss, through betrayal or distance or bereavement."Professor Anna Goldsworthy, Director of Elder Conservatorium of Music and a member of Seraphim Trio

Robert Schumann鈥檚 song cycle Frauenliebe und leben was written in 1840 and presents the perspective of a woman whose life revolves purely around her home and her husband, in an idealised domestic fantasy fitting of the 19^th century.

Yet, as Professor Goldsworthy expressed: 鈥淚t would be a tremendous loss to retire such a work from the repertoire, but perhaps some context can be added.鈥�

The song cycle Snapshots of Love and Life, written by Anne Cawrse and Professor Goldsworthy, was born out of this uncomfortable disconnect and will be performed for the very first time in public at the evening concert.

鈥淎nne Carwse and myself have penned a more contemporary version of a woman鈥檚 life, speaking of romantic love and its loss, but then moving into regions beyond, of ambivalence, grief, autonomy, and 鈥� yes 鈥� ongoing love. Schumann鈥檚 beautiful cycle remained a lodestar for us both,鈥� said Professor Goldsworthy, who composed the lyrics that will be performed by Lorina Gore鈥檚 extraordinary soprano.

Audiences will also relish listening to Piano Trio by Clara Schuman, which was written during a desperately difficult time in Clara鈥檚 life, after she suffered a miscarriage and while her husband鈥檚 health seriously deteriorated. This beautiful chamber composition 鈥� often referred to as Clara鈥檚 鈥榤asterpiece鈥� 鈥� predated her husband鈥檚 first in the same genre by a year.

Performers

Seraphim Trio 鈥� Helen Ayres (violin), Tim Nankervis (cello) and Anna Goldsworthy (piano).

Lorina Gore (soprano).

When:

Saturday 15 July, 6.30pm鈥�8.30pm.

Where:

Elder Hall, 成人大片, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000.

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