Presented by Jon Rose
“Listening to history: some proposals for reclaiming the practice of music”
Presented by New Music Network

Date: Monday 3 December, 6pm
Where: THE MINT, 10 Macquarie St Sydney
FREE. Bookings essential ph: T 02 8239 2211 (limited numbers)
Performance by improviser Dale Gorfinkel

For over 30 years, Jon Rose has been at the sharp end of experimental, new and improvised music. The 2007 address will look for positive models, forgotten notions, and unorthodox praxis that have entertained and given meaning to the lives of Australians over the last 200 years but which have never entered, or been allowed to enter, the canon of imported mainstream music making. Jon will suggest that only when we start to investigate and value our own extraordinary musical culture, will the cultural cringe stop defining what constitutes music on this continent.

The Address will also include a Book/DVD Launch of Post Impressions: A Travel Guide for Tragic Intellectuals by Hollis Taylor. Hollis is Jon’s wife and collaborator.

The New Music Network established the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in 1999 in honour of one of Australia’s great international composers. It is an annual forum for ideas relating to the creation and performance of Australian music. In the spirit of the great Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, an outstanding advocate of Australian music delivers the address each year, challenging the status quo and raising issues of importance in new music.

Supported by Historic Houses Trust, Arts NSW, ABC Radio National and ABC Classic FM.

www.newmmusicnetwork.com.au