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Creative Arts Fellowships, supported by the Friends of the Library and the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust, offer Australian artists and writers an opportunity to develop new work that is inspired or informed by our collections. 2022 Dr Tonya Lemoh, Creative Arts Fellow (supported by the Friends of the NLA) Interiors: a journey through the musical world of Henry Handel Richardson
Creative Arts Fellows Creative Arts Fellowships, supported by the Friends of the Library and the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust, offer Australian artists and writers an opportunity to develop new work that is inspired or informed by our collections. 2021 Frederick Septimus Kelly: the Lost Olympian Image David will examine the manuscripts of Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916), a prolific and prodigiously talented musician and composer. David seeks to restore the parts of Kelly’s body of work that have been forgotten since his death by typesetting and editing them, and preparing them for...
F.S. Kelly (1881-1916) produced a body of compositions in his short lifetime that outshines any of his Australian contemporaries, excepting the extraordinary Percy Grainger. For his National Library of Australia 2021 Creative Arts Fellowship, David Wickham has examined all extant Kelly manuscripts in the Library’s collection, with a view to preparing them for publication in five volumes. This performance, also featuring soprano Helen Brown and violinist Christopher Latham, will showcase the songs, solo piano works and the first Violin Sonata of F.S. Kelly for the first time since the compos...
Residents of a Cardiff neighbourhood have sprung into action to defend Flaxland Woods, a popular area of greenery bordering the A48, one of the…
Chris Latham and David Wickham. Photo: Peter Hislop Music / “A Great Australian Romantic – from Sydney to the Somme”. The music of Frederick Septimus Kelly played by Christopher Latham and David Wickham. At Wesley Music Centre, April 23. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY. FREDERICK Septimus Kelly was an Australian composer, an Olympian and a World War I soldier. Chris Latham has championed Kelly’s music and even orchestrated it so the world can hear the profound feeling in his music. Just before Anzac Day, it was fitting to hear the first performance of Kelly’s “D minor Violin Sonata” pl...