Document Type
Creative Work
ANZSRC / FoR Code
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
COinS
Creative Work
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
Publication Details
Schultz, A. N. (2003). Journey to Horseshoe Bend. Based on the novel by T.G.H. Strehlow, Symphonic Cantata for solo voices, narrators, choirs and orchestra. Music by Andrew Schultz, libretto by Gordon Kalton Williams. Commissioned by Symphony Australia with financial assistance from the Australia Council for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (pp. 1-177). [Printed publication] : Grosvenor Place, Sydney, NSW Australian Music Centre. ISMN: M-67301-488-6.
Digital file not available. For access to the printed score, please contact Michael Organ, Manager Repository Services: morgan@uow.edu.au.
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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT
Research Background
55 minute choral-orchestral work based on TGH Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend commissioned by Symphony Australia with funding from the Australia Council for performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It comprises a symphonic cantata for solo voices, narrators, choirs and orchestra with music by Andrew Schultz and libretto by Gordon Kalton Williams.
Research Contribution
Journey to Horseshoe Bend is a cantata developed in consultation with the Strehlow Research Centre and Alice Springs Aranda people. It is a musical interpretation of TGH Strehlow's autobiographical novel of the same name. It tells of his journey down the Finke River Valley of Central Australia where the ancient landscapes of the Aranda people and European pastoral holdings co-exist. Fascinating narratives of Australian history, fusing European and Aboriginal traditions, unfold as a spiritual voyage of discovery.
Research Significance
• first performances Sydney Opera House, standing ovations
• ABC recording broadcast live nationally in Australia twice; CD recording has had frequent further broadcasts in Australia and abroad
• very wide media coverage in Australia, including outstanding reviews in all major national press and music journals, wide ABC radio coverage and TV documentary
• CD released on ABC Classics
• innovative in its use of orchestral space, modes of communication, relationship of indigenous and European cultures
• incorporates Aranda languages and performance for the first time in a concert hall work
• education kits on the work by Open Uni, UK and Australian Music Centre
• Finalist, Best Choral Work, AMC-APRA Award, 2006