‘Late in 2010 the folks at Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) asked me if I was interested in collaborating with a modern classical composer on a song cycle. The idea sounded so scary I said yes straight away before I could talk myself out of it.’ (Paul Kelly)
Conversations With Ghosts, is a hauntingly beautiful work based on poems of Les Murray, W.B Yeats, Judith Wright, Lord Alfred Tennyson and others that I am not going to forget having seen anytime soon. This major new work has been co-written by Paul Kelly and ANAM’s 2011 resident composer James Ledger. Working together for the first time, they have created an atmospheric work that touches on the themes of death and mortality.
