Peter Wesley-Smith
Peter Wesley-Smith (born 10 June 1945) is an Australian librettist and legal scholar. He often worked as the librettist with his identical twin brother, composer Martin Wesley-Smith on work that crosses a range of musical styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces that integrate words, music and images. Wordsmith Peter Wesley-Smith and composer Martin Wesley-Smith were known as Australia's counterparts to "Ira and George Gershwin” Two main themes dominated the Wesley-Smith collaborations: the life, work and ideas of Lewis Carroll as portrayed in their rock opera BOOJUM!, and the plight of the people of East Timor. Life Peter Wesley-Smith was born, one of two identical twin boys, Peter and Martin Wesley-Smith, in Adelaide. He had two older brothers, Rob Wesley-Smith, also an activist in Timor, and Jerry Wesley, a jazz pianist. His parents were part of the Adelaide establishment. His father was the Academic Registrar of the University of Adelaide, and his mother was a teacher and a presenter of the ABC's radio program Kindergarten of the Air’’. Peter and Martin Wesley-Smith were both conscripted to go to Vietnam, but avoided military service by undertaking studies until conscription ended. Peter avoided