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IT lasted just 40 seconds but a performance at Ulumbarra Theatre on Friday night was steeped in significance.
As a crowd of several hundred milled about the foyer of the new theatre, trumpeters Tristan Williams and Callum G'Froerer played an Igor Stravinsky piece first performed 51 years ago as part of the opening ceremony for the New York State Theater at the Lincoln Center – ‘Fanfare For a New Theatre’.
The performance was followed by the Australian premiere of Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s score for the 1914 Belgian silent movie ‘Maudite Soit la Guerre (War is Hell)’ in acknowledgment of the centenary of ANZAC Day.
The two performances were part of the second night of this year’s Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM), which got underway Friday with two concerts.
For more information go to the BIFEM website.