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Symphony of Australia – The First Musical History of our Nation

(Second edition – 2013) Music and Lyrics by Gavin Lockley Book compiled by Michael Crouch AO ISBN 978 0 980 40802 7 (Hardback with CD) Following a performance of Lockley’s setting of the iconic Dorothea McKellar poem, My Country, came the inspiration to create a six movement Symphonic Poem (complete with vocal and instrumental solos, … Read more

Symphony of Australia: Ballads of the Bush. Gavin Lockley. ABC 476 3659

Australians seem to be forever on a quest to discover themselves. Australian identity is uppermost in our collective psyche. Gavin Lockley is a new voice in Australian composition, and in this two CD set, we have a symphonic work of large proportions which captures the history of Australia from the Dreamtime, through the arrival of … Read more