Oct 15, 2011 00:00
Интервью for The Australian Polonskaya says her inspiration is "a life, pain, relations, love, war, death". In emailed answers to questions, she says the "permanent and invisible" war with the Caucasus is another. And while the Kursk tragedy didn't consciously influence her, the sea is a strong, recurring motif. "As a writer, I have not a calm being, I absorb all that happens," she writes. Polonskaya came to Melbourne last year for a Kursk: An Oratorio Requiem workshop with Chisholm, the singers and American conductor Eric Dudley. She will return for the Melbourne premiere, reading her work in Russian in the first part of the concert, with Melbourne actor Greg Ulfan reading them again in translation. After an interval the audience will hear them in a musical setting. Polonskaya, says Chisholm, has a response to disaster and death that is very Russian in its unflinching gaze. He too has had an interest in the tragic undertow of the human condition and the structures we create to express our sadness or anguish. Chisholm says the Kursk tragedy is recalled by many in a ritualistic way.
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