Our recent project can be seen in the above video. Stay tuned for our 2020 project!

Date: 21st September 2019

10:00am - 3:00pm

Having originally planned to rehearse and perform Thomas Tallis' epic surround-sound composition Spem in alium we have decided to change our focus and perform works by Australian composers with music that is appropriate for the land and space on which we will be performing. It will be repertoire that is synonymous with the usual programming of this choir.

Repertoire:

  • Heather Percy: Locus Iste

https://www.heatherpercymusic.com

Locus Iste is Heather Percy’s response to Anton Bruckner’s famous setting of this text. Those familiar with this work will recognise the musical cameos imbedded in the work indicating Bruckner’s influence. Though harmonically and melodically reimagined, Heather Percy’s Locus Iste clearly pays homage Bruckner’s musical mastery.

  • Ruth McCall: Waltzing Matilda

https://ruthmccall.com.au

Combining the traditional tune, the ‘Queensland tune’, a new tune, and a chant on one note using aboriginal botanical names. The chants words relate to trees, or groups of trees which form the circle around which the action in this song takes place – the billabong. The sheep is drawn to the water, the squatter is drawn to the sheep, the troopers are drawn to the thief, and the ghost lingers there forevermore.

  • Juliana Kay: Songs No Longer Sung

http://www.julianakaymusic.com

Juliana writes: Despite the backdrop of hunger, death and despair, music was constantly being composed, performed and heard during the Holocaust, even in the most desperate of places. While forced music performances were frequently used as an SS strategy of physical and psychological domination, voluntary musical expression still existed among prisoners in camps and ghettos across Europe. Songs responding to victims’ varied circumstances emerged, asserting individual and collective survival and agency.

  • Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig

As a performing artist, Clara Schumann was considered of the same caliber as Liszt, Thalberg, and Rubinstein. Her compositions, considered of the new Romantic school by her contemporaries, exemplify her superb craft as a creator of new expressive music and show solid knowledge of advanced theory and chromatic harmony. It would be amiss not to perform a beautiful choral work by Clara as it was the 200th anniversary of her birth on Friday the 13th of September.

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This year we are delighted to announce that we will be holding our event on the UNESCO World Heritage listed site of Cockatoo Island.

The event will consist of a morning rehearsal and a public performance.

Registration cost will be $30 to cover music printing and various administrative costs. We will email you separately regarding this.

Please sign up by using the form below. Applications are open until the end of Friday 20th of September.