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Concert Program for 2008
Three Choirs in Concert
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3pm
Sunday 1st June 2008
St Andrew's Uniting Church, cnr Creek & Ann Streets,
Brisbane
We take every opportunity we can to
perform with young singers, and for this concert we are
looking forward to sharing the stage with two select ensembles from
schools in Brisbane. We
believe that it is important to provide such opportunities, so that
young performers can see and
hear for themselves what it is like to perform with an adult choir.
We hope that some of the
participants will look forward to joining us in the future, but more
than that we hope that all of them
will keep singing for life.
Anthony Young has been involved in getting a huge number of boys
involved in choral music at
St Laurence's College. Tim Sherlock is head of music at All Hallows'
School. We will be hearing
programs from chamber choirs from both of these schools.
Brisbane Concert Choir will also present a selection of our favourite
small works for choir.
All three choirs will join together tp present the final work on the
program.
Further repertoire details will be available soon.
Handel's Messiah
3pm
Sunday 13th July 2008
Most choral music lovers are familiar
with the later editions of Handel's evergreen work, which feature
orchestrations by other composers, using much larger forces than he
originally employed. The result,
when overdone, is really more like Handel on steroids. While there is
almost certainly no single edition
of this work which can be regarded as "the" definitive one (as Handel
produced a number of versions
during his lifetime, as performers and performances dictated), we aim
to perform the work in a form
which is closer to the "original" end of the spectrum than to the
"steroidal". Because of the need to move
our a cappella concert to November (in time for our planned European
trip in December), we have
employed the Southern Hemisphere prerogative of celebrating "Christmas
in July" for this traditionally
advent season music.
With the Sinfonia of St Andrew's.
St Andrew's Uniting Church, cnr Creek & Ann Streets,
Brisbane
Come and Sing 'from scratch' - Brahms's
German Requiem (in German)
Rehearsal begins 1pm
Saturday 16th August 2008
- Performance at 7.00pm
This well-known work will be rehearsed
and performed in one day. Rehearsal CDs to play your
part will be available early in May. All of our previous 'from
scratch' performances have been sung in
Latin, so we thought it was time for a change. We will provide
assistance with the German pronunciation
as well, for singers who are not familiar with the language. It is not
too difficult.
With the Sinfonia of St Andrew's.
St Andrew's Uniting Church, cnr Creek & Ann Streets,
Brisbane
A Cappella Concert
(in preparation for our planned European Tour)
6pm
Sunday 16th November 2008
Our annual concert for smaller choral
works without orchestra. Details to come.
St Andrew's Uniting Church, cnr Creek & Ann Streets,
Brisbane
(Dates, times and programmes subject to
change)
