00:34My name's Brett Dean. I'm Australian. And I'm a composer, a viola player, a conductor. Yeah, a musician.
01:22I'm a musician.
01:28I'm a musician.
01:29come to mind obviously throughout musical history you know we've we've taken our lead from the the
01:35world around us in that sense beethoven's cuckoos in the slow movement of the pastoral symphony
01:43are not the newest of innovations at the time but obviously also very telling you know it's
01:50also the placement where do you put a bird call so that it has maximum effect and you know obviously
01:58he nailed that one
02:35composers feature birds and birdsong because it's this unbelievable world of invention
02:43what is fascinating is how many birdsong examples are absolutely notatable that somehow something of
02:54of their vocal apparatus is is you know very akin to the way we hear music
03:06i wrote this piece pastoral symphony in the time that i was first living here
03:10in the sunshine coast of queensland
03:15it was just very much a celebration of what i heard and saw and felt around me by opening the
03:24windows
03:24and listening to particularly the bird the bird life
03:56the latter part of the piece and how it is
03:59develops is very much a reflection of my own responses to living here. So the longer we
04:06lived here, the more we became aware of the impact of humans on this pristine, beautiful,
04:15but fragile environment. You know, we'd sort of go walking through some pristine piece
04:20of bushland one week, and then the next week the bulldozers had moved in to turn it into
04:26a new housing estate.
04:50So at that point, something quite fundamental in the piece happens, and that is for the
04:55first time we hear the sound of a tree being chopped down.
05:08The title Pastoral Symphony is, of course, somewhat ironic. It is pastoral, certainly. I mean,
05:14it is of nature. And in many ways, like Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, they were the awakening of
05:20feelings of arrival in the countryside. So, you know, it's partly ironic. It's a kind
05:30of a doffing of the cap, but with a twinkle in the eye to great old Ludwig. But it's a
05:38title
05:38that then, I have to say, captures the imagination because of its Beethoven link, I'm sure. And,
05:45you know, it's been programmed together with Beethoven's Pastoral on more than one occasion,
05:53which is, you know, wonderful. I like sharing the program with Beethoven. You know, he's good.
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06:19Amen.
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