News Release:
UNE lecture includes sounds of world music
| Date 26/5/03 No 066/03 Solo performances on up to 25 musical instruments will illustrate a public lecture, at the University of New England, on the role of music throughout history and across cultures. A typical review praises the performer, Lauren Pelon, for "her beautiful, fervent voice and her extraordinary talents on an assortment of unusual but authentic instruments". The 2003 Gordon Athol Anderson Memorial Lecture, titled "The Living Roots of Music", will be in UNE's Lazenby Hall at 8 pm on Thursday 5 June. During the lecture/performance Ms Pelon will not only sing, but also play instruments such as the lyre, psalmodikon, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy and doucaine. She will perform her own compositions, as well as music from ancient Greece, medieval and renaissance Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Lauren Pelon lives in Minneapolis, USA, where she has established
a museum with her collection of musical instruments from around
the world. She has studied music history and instrumentation in
a number of countries, and has performed throughout the United States,
appearing as a soloist with symphony orchestras and on special television
programs. |
She has also performed in Canada, Europe, China, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, and Australia. She was one of 12 American ethnomusicologists and music educators selected to tour China and Kazakhstan in 1992 to research the music of ethnic minorities. The Gordon Athol Anderson lecture series began in 1983, and has been given every year since then. It commemorates the work of Professor Gordon Anderson, who held a personal Chair in Music at UNE from 1979 until his death in 1981. Professor Anderson was the first Australian academic to make an international impact on the study of medieval music. Ms Pelon is the fourth American presenter of a Gordon Athol Anderson lecture. Her wide-ranging performance will touch on many of Professor Anderson's principal interests as a music scholar. It will be followed by supper in the Lazenby Hall foyer. Media contact: Ann Ghandar, UNE Music, Armidale (02) 6773 6456, Simone Pearce, Events Coordinator, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3955 or Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3049. |
