Elena kats chernin biography of donald

So, she became a pioneering eye surgeon specialising in operations to correct cross-eye syndrome in children. It was very fine and fiddly work. Having experienced food shortages and other difficult aspects of life in her native Russia, the teenaged Elena was shocked — and delighted — with her first impressions of Australia.

Soviet-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin is perhaps best known for her ballet Wild Swans, which contains the popular vocal number for wordless soprano.

It was a beautiful sunny April day and I saw all these manicured gardens and little houses looking so beautiful. It felt like a miracle and I've never lost that sense of wonder at how amazingly lucky we were to come here. In her last year at the Sydney Conservatorium, she fell in with a group of aspiring avant-garde theatre artists.

Some of them were painters, some were doing drag-acts, there was a punk-rocker and somebody else was doing mime. They asked Elena to contribute so, while suffering from jetlag one night, as an experiment she wrote ten rags and sent them off for consideration. She was just wonderful because she took part in everything, not just singing and dancing but also helping out as a kind of a stagehand.

She was just so fantastic to work with that I felt like I wanted to write something for her. So one morning before rehearsal I went to my room with the idea in mind, using just three chords and only the white notes at the start. It really was just a five-minute kind of thing. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

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