First Fridays with Robert Black - November 6, 2020

This performance from Friday November 6, 2020 features some trippy music from Australia. First up, music from Young Green Tree – Song of the Republic by Colin Bright. This music, inspired by the 1887 Henry Lawson nationalist poem of the same title, is itself under the spell of the vast timelessness of the Outback. Kate Moore’s The Hermit Thrush and the Astronaut rounds out the show. Full of buzzing energy, it is inspired by “the infinitely varied birdsong of the hermit thrush and the stone engraving of an astronaut on the door of the Salamanca cathedral in Spain – it is something ancient, something modern, something timeless.”