Cyrus Louis Meurant

The Bow and the Lyre:

Harmonious structures and opposite tensions –

collaboration and extramusical inspiration in composition

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The University of Sydney

Volume III

A guide to accompanying media

submitted in partial fulfilment

of requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Musical Arts

Contents

1. Monday to Friday………….1

2. Concertino………………….2

3. Prelude and Vessel…………3

4. Le Petit Prince……………...4

5. HERAKLEITOS…………...8

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Monday to Friday

STUDIO RECORDING

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Concertino for Clarinet and String Quartet

Performed by the Omega Ensemble

David Rowden, Artistic Director and Clarinet

Veronique Serret – Violin I

Airena Nakamura – Violin II

Neil Thompson – Viola

Paul Stender – Cello

Thursday 25 October 2018

Gordon Darling Hall, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

LIVE RECORDING

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Prelude for String Orchestra

and

Vessel for String Orchestra

Performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective

Pekka Kuusisto, Artistic Director and Violin

Thursday 25 March 2018

Margaret River Cultural Centre, Western Australia

LIVE VIDEO RECORDING

Vessel Premiere – The Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney

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Le Petit Prince

Performed by Divadlo F.X. Šaldy, Liberec, Czech Republic

Choreography by Margaux Thomas

Directed by Macbeth Kaněra

Music by Cyrus Meurant

Cyrus Meurant – Violin

Maxim Biriucov – Piano

Friday 16 February 2018 – PREMIERE

Malé divadlo – DIVADLO F. X. ŠALDY LIBEREC, Czech Republic

LIVE VIDEO RECORDING

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HERAKLEITOS An Opera by Cyrus Meurant

Libretto by Cyrus Meurant derived from the translations of The Fragments of Heraclitus by John Burnet and G.T.W. Patrick.

Musical Director – Rebecca Lang

Light Design – Hilton Jones

Dramaturge – Caroline Staunton

HERAKLEITOS – Birger Radde

WOMAN – Samantha Britt

MAN – Ziad Nehme

Kreuzberger Kamerata

Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Kleiner Saal

Hamburg, Germany

Saturday 9 June 2018 – PREMIERE

LIVE VIDEO RECORDING

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