{"id":263,"date":"2020-11-10T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2024-09-28T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T01:14:49","slug":"to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=263","title":{"rendered":"To Be Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;\"><p>In using the theme and title <i>To be human<\/i> for this performance, I sought to convey three main thoughts. The first is the unconditional preciousness and inalienable dignity of each human being as discussed by Raimond Gaita (A common humanity: Thinking about love and truth and justice pp. 5, 18 &amp; 33). The second is that reflecting together on the shared experiences of life \u2013 birth, death, love, loss, health, sickness, joy, sadness, community and loneliness, and so on \u2013 has the potential to build bridges of compassion and empathy across sometimes polarizing cultural and ideological differences. (Steffen, V. (1997). <i>Life stories and shared experience<\/i>. Social Science &amp; Medicine, 45(1)). Thirdly that stories and narratives from our own and others\u2019 lives are meaningful and significant in and of themselves; Vibeke Steffen states (1997 p. 99) \u201cpersonal stories also have their own life. They are a way of expressing experience, and as reality manifests itself as experience in us, stories are fundamental to human understanding.\u201d In this performance, the selected works, together with the contextual information shared, created a musical narrative of various aspects of what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p><i>To be human<\/i> was held on 14 November 2021, again at the Ian Hanger Recital Hall. Works featured included <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=44\">Stuart Greenbaum&#8217;s <i>800 million heartbeats<\/i><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=408\">Dulcie Holland&#8217;s <i>Cradle song for a special child<\/i><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=410\"><i>Maranoa lullaby<\/i> from Piano trio no. 2 &#8220;A book of lullabies&#8221; by Ian Munro<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=412\"><i>Sleepless dreaming<\/i><\/a>, a work written on commission for this project by Torres Strait Islander composer Will Kepa; <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=414\">Elena Kats-Chernin&#8217;s <i>Blue silence<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=416\">Carl Vine&#8217;s Piano trio: &#8220;<i>the Village<\/i>&#8220;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the Landscapes performance, where we sought to minimize human speech in the contextualising elements of the performance, here I featured selections of my (or others\u2019, with permission) interviews with the composers as context; and for <i>Maranoa Lullaby<\/i>, we shared a youtube video of Gunggari woman, Ethel Munn, singing the Lethbridge transcription of that traditional lullaby.<\/p>\n<p>Note: live recordings of the individual works are included on their pages, under <a href=\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=15\">featured works<\/a>; but due to copyright restrictions I am unable to share a recording of the whole event.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-1\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--body_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--body_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--body_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--body_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--body_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--body_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"6240\" height=\"4160\" title=\"december 2021_035_final (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/december-2021_035_final-1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-549 disable-lazyload\"\/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Photo credit: Helen Kilpatrick<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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