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SEPTEMBER 29TH - OCTOBER 8TH 2000 |
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Bozidar Kos
Bozidar Kos began studying music in his native Slovenia at the age of six. Later, when he
was a student at the University of Ljubljana, he became actively involved in jazz, playing
throughout Europe. He moved to Australia in 1965 and began to compose seriously while a
student of composition at the University of Adelaide where he graduated with the Master of
Music degree. At the University of Sydney he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. In 1976 he was appointed to the staff of the faculty of music at the University
of Adelaide. In 1978 he became the University of Adelaide's Fellow in Composition, a post he
held until 1983. He is at present Chair of Composition Unit at the Sydney Conservatory of
Music. Bozidar Kos has earned a number of important prizes, grants and awards.
Aurora Australis
"Aurora Australis" or "southern lights" is a luminous, quivering glow, seen at night in the
sky in southern latitudes. It appears in various forms but mostly as waves and folds or
shimmering curtains of coloured light. Rapidly shifting patches and dancing columns of light
of various hues can be seen high in the atmosphere with a dark segment of the sky lying
beneath them. Aurora is also a Latin word for dawn, for the daybreak, for the first
appearance of the daylight. In a figurative sense it can mean the beginning or the first
appearance of something. The piece Aurora Australis is not a programmatic piece, yet its
structure is reminiscent of the atmospheric phenomena.