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Music for the Solar System

THE Solar System is centre stage in the 2012 concert season for Canberra.

Very soon at Mt Stromlo Observatory our own Griffyn Ensemble will perform “Southern Sky”, composed by Estonia’s Urmas Sisask and based on the southern constellations.

Then in August, Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s “Llewellyn 3” program sees William Barton on didgeridoo and orchestra performing Peter Sculthorpe’s “Earth Cry”, before a second act of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”.

But before both, Musica Viva kicks of its 2012 Season this March with the spectacular “Galileo Project” from Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik.

This multimedia concert experience combines projected images from the Hubble telescope and Canadian astronomers with music from the time of Galileo by composers like Monteverdi and Merula, and astronomically-themed music by baroque composers including Rameau, Handel, Zelenka and Bach.

Actor Shaun Smyth will narrate a staged program that combines projected images from the Hubble telescope and Canadian astronomers with music from the time of Galileo by such composers as Monteverdi and Merula, and astronomically-themed music by baroque composers.

The Galileo Project has toured China (in Mandarin), Malaysia, Mexico (in Spanish), Canada and the United States since it was created by bassist Alison Mackay to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, The Galileo Project was a co-production with The Banff Centre with stage direction by Marshall Pynkoski, and production design by Glenn Davidson.

Musica Viva presents “The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres”, 7pm, at Llewellyn Hall, March 8, bookings to ticketek.com.au or 132 849.

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