ORIGINS: of the universe, of life, of species, of humanity (18 July 2023)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2023
- The Heidelberg Choral Society (www.hcs.asn.au), Melbourne Australia
Melbourne Recital Centre, July 18th, 2023
Concept: Prof Jenny Graves scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jgraves
Music: Nicholas Buc nicholasbuc.com
Libretto: Jenny Graves, Leigh Hay
Visuals: Drew Berry wehi.tv
Conductor: Peter Bandy
Director: Geoffrey Grinton
Soprano: Lee Abrahmsen
Contralto: Liane Keegan
Tenor: Robert Macfarlane
Bass-Baritone: Adrian Tamburini
Oratorio by evolutionary geneticist Prof Jenny Graves, poet Leigh Hay and brilliant Australian composer Nicholas Buc, performed by the Heidelberg Choral Society, full orchestra and fabulous soloists. A breathtaking libretto inspired by cosmology, evolution, genetics and anthropology describes our origins from the Big Bang to the emergence of humanity.
About ORIGINS:
Every human culture on earth has its creation story. Origins tells the creation story from science; cosmology, genetics, ecology, and anthropology. It belongs to all cultures.
The libretto is in four parts, expressing the Origin of the Universe, the Origin of Life, the Origin of Species, and the Origin of Man. The movements have a range of different feels, from awe and reverence (e.g. #1) to light-hearted banter (e.g. #12), melodrama (e.g.#5), erotica (e.g. #14) and reflection (e.g.# 21).
Despite the wide sweep of subject matter and massive range of emotions, there are common themes in the wonder and beauty of the world, and the simplicity and elegance of scientific explanations. This invites some means of linking these themes musically, via motifs or instrumental statements.
In researching and discussing the work with scientists and musicians, I have become more and more aware of the uniqueness of the subject matter. Astonishingly, nobody seems to have attempted to represent even the most elementary scientific concepts musically. This opens up opportunities to create something absolutely novel, profound, and timeless; for instance musical descriptions of speciation (how one species becomes two), survival of the fittest (the engine of evolution), and the evolution of our complex genome by mutation, inversion, duplication of DNA (obviously a fugue!).
My overarching aim in the whole work is to present science as beautiful and wonderful, sexy, and even fun.
- Prof Jenny Graves, 18 July 2023
Copyright © 2023 Heidelberg Choral Society, Jennifer Graves, Leigh Hay and Nicholas Buc 
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One endless cosmic maelstrom, age-old and ever new, us where we all are coming from and where we're going to. From here we may arise to see and claim as our own the secrets of reality just waiting to be known.
It's just, uh. marvelous. Goosebumps ❤
Magnifique 🌹
Incredible! I wish I could see this live in San Francisco symphony!
Well this is incredible!
I'm sorry but what the fuck did I stumble on and why the fuck is it so perfect.
Where have you been all my life WEHImovies?!?!??!
0:30 PART Ⅰ: ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE 1. A Universe from Nothing
8:53 PART Ⅰ: ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE 2. Rocky Horror
13:45 PART Ⅰ: ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE 3. The Pale Blue Dot
19:32 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 4. The Warm Little Pond
25:19 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 5. The Double Helix
33:25 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 6. The Immortal Molecule
39:25 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 7. The Code of Life
44:21 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 8. Sentinels of First Life
50:34 PART Ⅱ: ORIGIN OF LIFE 9. The Tangled Bank
56:10 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 10. The Struggle for Existence
1:00:34 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 11. One Great Law
1:04:45 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 12. Let's Multiply
1:08:48 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 13. Selection in Black and White
1:11:45 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 14. Dance Of the Lyrebird
1:14:47 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 15. The Ant Queen
1:17:46 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 16. The Birth of New Species
1:21:30 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 17. Extinction
1:26:53 PART Ⅲ: ORIGIN OF SPECIES 18. Endless Forms Most Wonderful
1:31:09 PART Ⅳ: ORIGIN OF HUMANITY 19. The Third Chimpanzee
1:34:47 PART Ⅳ: ORIGIN OF HUMANITY 20. The Dominant Mammal
1:39:00 PART Ⅳ: ORIGIN OF HUMANITY 21. Man is the Astronomer
Dance of the lyrebird didn't need to go so hard
Oh my gosh
the universe has allways been and will allway be its made of energy pure energy no matter so man could not cope with that so he invented religion to explain without proof how we got here
Who made that energy,
There is someone who made that energy
nobody it has allways been without it there would be "nothing" at all@@ayaanmasood4467