Instrumentation

0.2.ca(or cl, or vlc).0.0.(cbsn) - 4000, or 3010, or 2020, or 0220 - perc(1): tam-t/susp.cym/BD - strings

Availability

Score (fp) 0-571-56583-2 on sale, parts for hire

Programme Notes

Djilile for chamber orchestra This is one of a number of landscape-inspired works which I have based upon the indigenous Australian chant ‘djilile’, meaning ‘whistling-duck on a billabong’. The chant, in its original form, was collected by Professor A.P. Elkin during a field trip to Arnhem Land in the late 1950s. While it is still sung today, I have found that aborigines in the area do not seem to recognise it in any kind of instrumental form. To them, it appears to exist only when it is sung, a quite wondrous concept. Peter Sculthorpe

Djilile

Landesbuhne Radebeul (Radebeul, Germany)

Djilile

Live streamed

Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Northey

Djilile

St Mary's Church Waverly (NSW, Australia)

Waverly Randwick Philharmonic Society/David Angel

Djilile

Fremantle Arts Centre (Fremantle, WA, Australia)

Western Australia Symphony Orchestra/Peter Moore

Djilile

LSO St Luke's (London, United Kingdom)

Tait Orchestretta/Kelly Lovelady