Event
To be sung on water
- Date: Saturday, 21 November 2015, 11am and 5pm
- Venue: Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room — Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW
- Tickets: Adult $60 | Pensioner / Seniors / Child / Student: $55 | Concession $49.50 (booking fees apply)
Event Details
The Utzon Room is the perfect backdrop for a concert that celebrates vocal music inspired by water. As well as two world premieres by Australian composers Rosalind Page and Luke Byrne, hear the sublime vocal music of Whitacre, Delius and Vaughan Williams. Be surprised by the possibilities of choral music with Stars by the lauded Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, a piece that employs water-tuned glasses for celestial effects.
To add to this intimate program in the Utzon Room, our dynamic and charismatic Music Director, Brett Weymark, invites you to join him after the performance for a drink.
ORLOVICH Tides of Ocean
PALESTRINA Sicut Cervus
ARR. JAMES ERD Shenandoah
HIGGINBOTTOM O Waly, Waly
PAGE Time and Water (world premiere)
DELIUS Two Unaccompanied Part Songs: To be sung of a Summer night on the water
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Just as the tide was flowing- No.3 from 5 English folk songs
BARBER To be sung on water
MONTEVERDI Ecco Mormorar L’Onde
WALKER The Pool
WHITACRE Water Night
ESENVALDS A drop in the ocean
SCHUTZ Vasto Mar
BINGHAM The Drowned Lovers (reworking of Bluebird by Stanford)
BYRNE Desert Sea (world premiere)
ESENVALDS Stars
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9251 2117 or by email to enquiries@sydneyphilharmonia.com.au
Featured Australian Works
Desert Sea : SATB choir and percussion (2015) by Luke Byrne — World premiere — performed by Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers, Brett Weymark and Luke Byrne | |
The Pool : choir by Dan Walker — performed by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Brett Weymark | |
| Tides of ocean : for mixed voices (SATB) a cappella (1998) by Matthew Orlovich — performed by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Brett Weymark |
Time and water : choir by Rosà Lind Page — World premiere — performed by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Brett Weymark | |
Desert Sea by Luke Byrne — World premiere |
Featured artists
- Performer Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
- Conductor Brett Weymark
- Performer Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers
- Performer Luke Byrne
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