Keating’s famous Redfern words set to music | Engalvo
Paul Keating’s historic 1992 Redfern Address was the first official acknowledgement of the violent dispossession of Indigenous people in Australia. It was voted in 2007 by ABC Radio National listeners as their third most unforgettable speech after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” and the Sermon on the Mount., which receives its world premiere on Sunday, will breathe fresh life into Keating’s historic words.
“The oratorio will celebrate the truth telling that I believed the country sorely needed,” Keating writes in a letter of support. “If not to cleanse the soul, to at least atone for the regretful dispossession and wicked atomisation of Indigenous society.”Scored for large orchestra, choir and two soloists, the work has been complete for a number of years but funding issues and then COVID delayed the premiere until now.
Bowen says it is fortuitous the work is being premiered just as a new government has placed reconciliation and an Indigenous Voice to Parliament at the top of the national agenda.
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