Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the inspiration of the Muses. Over three days, master musicians and ensembles – including The Consort of Melbourne, Vox Plexus and the PFSMF Children’s Chorus – will bring these stories to life.

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Dreaming of tens of thousands of years of human history, we find ourselves on the sacred Western Victorian sandstone of Gariwerd with the phenomenal artistry of Amos Roach’s Petyan, a narrative of a thousand generations of springtimes; whilst in medieval Italy, amongst the Roman ruins, a wandering trovatore strums an anonymous tune of indeterminable age and origin on his theorbo, then pens a newly imagined Fantasia or Ricercar, unwittingly laying the foundations for centuries of harmonic and melodic invention; Mozart picks up the thread, creating one of his most treasured gifts to humanity; a young Alma Mahler is inspired to masterfully set poetry by Dehmel, Hartleben, Falke, Rilke and Heine and waits 10 years before her husband allows her to publish; finally, Seletsky reunites us with the musical embodiment of centuries of displacement and migration – and we keep dreaming, of tens of thousands of years of human history.