The Flowers of the Great War collection is a gift to the nation and the world. Containing more than 20 hours of first recordings, music and contextual information, it is a survey of the best composers and painters from a dozen nations who fought in that conflict, most of whom were killed. It is a measure and demonstration of the cultural cost of war, undertaken as part of Christopher Latham’s artist-in-residence position at the Australian War Memorial. A primary focus has been the recovery of the music of Frederick Septimus Kelly, Australia’s greatest cultural loss of WW1. The collection includes the first complete edition of his recorded works, so that this important Australian, who served with the poet Rupert Brooke, and alongside Bernard Freyberg at Gallipoli and in the Somme where he was killed in 1916, can finally be reclaimed. Educated in Germany and fluent in German and French, Kelly is buried in France, 2kms from Pozieres. He embodies the alliance between our three nations.

Works by Frederick Septimus KELLY

Laurence Matheson, Timothy Young, Caroline Almonte pianos
Cristina Russo soprano
Chris Latham violin
Carrillo Gantner narrator

Tickets by enquiry to Flowers of War website
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