You will hear a lecturer describing, you will hear a lecturer describing three concerts arranged for a University Arts Festival.
First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.
Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
You already know that the University is organizing an Arts Festival later this year.
Here in the Music Department, we have now finalized the program for three public concerts.
The festival explores connections between Britain and Australia, so every concert combines music by composers from both countries.
Since the Australian works may be less familiar to you, I will give you a brief introduction to them.
Concert 1 includes music by Liza Lim, who was born in Perth in Western Australia in 1966.
When Lim was young, she learnt the piano and the violin, as many children do.
At 11, however, her teachers persuaded her to try writing music, and she soon realized that composition was where her real ability lay.
She went on to study the subject and later taught it in Australia and overseas.
Orchestras, individual performers and festivals in a number of countries have commissioned her work.
Her compositions are full of energy, and she frequently draws on Asian traditions and Aboriginal Australian culture.
One example is the compass, which features the didgeridoo.
Her music is highly expressive, and even though it is complex, it communicates strongly with performers and audiences.
For the festival, we will present a semi-staged version of the Oresteia.
The Oresteia is an opera in seven sections, derived from Aeschylus's trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies.
Lim composed it while she was still in her mid-twenties, and shared responsibility for the text with Barikoski.
Six vocalists and a dancer perform with an orchestra whose instruments include an electric guitar and a traditional Turkish stringed instrument, as well as the usual orchestral forces.
Lim explained that the stories themselves are difficult to relate, so the sounds she created are disturbing too.
They incorporate breathing, crying, laughter, and whistling.
The piece runs for about 75 minutes.
The rest of Concert 1 consists of orchestral music by the British composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius.
Concert 2 opens with instrumental works by the British composers Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.
Following the interval, the focus shifts to Australia, with Ross Edwards's The Tower of Remoteness.
Edwards said that nature inspired the piece.
He had been sitting by himself in a dry creek bed, beneath palm leaves, listening to insects and birds.
The music is written for piano and clarinet.
Only years later did Edwards recognize that he had unconsciously based its opening phrase on the call of a bird.
Edwards was born in Sydney in 1943.
He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney.
He is one of Australia's most frequently performed composers and has produced music in many forms, including symphonies, concertos, and works intended specifically for children.
His music is often said to have a profound connection with Australia, and it celebrates the diversity of the country's cultures.
The third Australian composer in our festival is Carl Vine.
Like Lisa Lim, Vine comes from Perth in Western Australia.
He was born in 1954 and started playing the cornet when he was five, moving to the piano at ten.
At university, though, he initially studied physics before transferring to composition.
After completing his degree, he settled in Sydney and worked independently as both a pianist and a composer.
He soon established a reputation in Australia for composing music for dance and has written 25 scores in that field.
In concert three, we will perform Vine's music for the flag handover ceremony at the 1996 Olympics.
This orchestral work lasts seven minutes and was heard by millions of people around the world.
It will appear in the programme with music by the British composers Edward Elgar and, from a later generation, Thomas Ades.
That is the end of part four.
You now have one minute to check your answers.
