all that is beautiful (2021)
6 minutes
for viola and double bass
Commissioned by Robert Nairn & Heidi von Bernewitz as part of the Seidler Oratorio Project.
First performance by by Robert Nairn & Heidi von Bernewitz on 28th April 2024 at Elder Hall, Adelaide, South Australia.
Recording coming soon!
6 minutes
for viola and double bass
Commissioned by Robert Nairn & Heidi von Bernewitz as part of the Seidler Oratorio Project.
First performance by by Robert Nairn & Heidi von Bernewitz on 28th April 2024 at Elder Hall, Adelaide, South Australia.
Recording coming soon!
This work was commissioned as part of the Seidler Oratorio Project - a long-term commissioning project that seeks to create new musical works responding to the war-time diary entries of architect Harry Seidler.
from Seidler's diary, Wednesday 26th June, 1940
Once again I was very depressed - my position seems more dismal from day to day. If it's true about Canada I'll never get back to Cambridge, at least not in the next couple of years. That means forge ing my happy life at Lady MacAlister's... above all forge ing all that is beautiful. When I think about all of this I could cry.
"Architecture is a language and architects speak it. Most of them just barely manage to speak - very few ever speak eloquent prose, but it happens rarely indeed that any of them create poetry with just a few words."
Harry Seidler to the Sydney Morning Herald, 1957
from Seidler's diary, Wednesday 26th June, 1940
Once again I was very depressed - my position seems more dismal from day to day. If it's true about Canada I'll never get back to Cambridge, at least not in the next couple of years. That means forge ing my happy life at Lady MacAlister's... above all forge ing all that is beautiful. When I think about all of this I could cry.
"Architecture is a language and architects speak it. Most of them just barely manage to speak - very few ever speak eloquent prose, but it happens rarely indeed that any of them create poetry with just a few words."
Harry Seidler to the Sydney Morning Herald, 1957
