Reply To: Music

March 4, 2023 at 5:03 am #241174

Participant

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon

For Max (of TÁR) — Your Ideal Composer?

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Max — You seek a composer who is BIPOC (black, indigenous, person of colour) and pangender.

Composer
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Max — Here’s Deborah Cheetham Fraillon introducing her vast composition Eumeralla, a War Requiem for Peace, that is based on the Latin mass (à la Mozart) but directed at colonial wars of the clandestine variety — specifically, Eumeralla, South Western Victoria: https://www.shortblackopera.org.au/eumeralla.

Deborah’s War Requiem is performed in the dialect of the Gunditjmara people, the traditional occupiers, for perhaps a thousand generations, of the land that armed colonists forcibly cleared them from.

Their blood was spilt to make way for grazing sheep, with implications for the “Agnes Dei” lament of her War Requiem.

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BIPOC
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Max — Deborah is a Yorta Yorta woman from the stolen generation of children removed from their aboriginal parents.

She is an educator and voice of Aboriginal Australians.

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LGBTQ
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Max — Deborah’s life partner is the conductor and ballet director, Nicolette Fraillon.

Here is Deborah singing the soprano part of her Yarran Ngarnga Yinga “Acknowledgement of Country” at last week’s Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert.

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