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Performance by Anthony Walker, Elliott Gyger, Contemporary Singers from the CD Sydney dreaming
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Tape
Memory pieces ; Women of Jerusalem ; Sydney dreaming / Stephen Adams.
Library shelf no. C 2771 [Available for loan]
Score
Sydney dreaming : music theatre, for mixed choir and soloists / Stephen Adams.
Library shelf no. 782.14/ADA 1 [Available for loan]
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Work Details
Year: 1988
Instrumentation: SATB choir, tenor soloist.
Duration: 9 min.
Contents note: Opening: Sydney dreaming I - The machines. Act I: The four seasons: Spring (Swinging early mornings) -- Summer (Lawnmower days) -- Autumn (Leaves in the gutter) -- Winter (Midnight to dawn essay shift) -- Interlude I: An unfamiliar wind. Act II: Night and day: The beating order -- A different shaped window -- Interlude II: From the centre -- Act III: The living and the dead: The market -- The cemetery. Finale: Sydney dreaming II - The sky.
Dedication note: Written for Native Rose Music Theatre Company, Contemporary Singers. Dedicated to Jen Craig, without whom..., and the Committee to Defend Black Rights, working for the two-thirds world in our backyard.
Commission note: Commissioned by Native Rose Music Theatre Company.
First performance: by Native Rose Music Theatre Company — Jul 92. Edge Theatre, Newtown
Opening movement and finale have been composed earlier as independent choral works (Sydney Dreaming, 1988, and Belong, 1991) and included in this version.
Originally performed with 2 dancers and a series of triptych slide projections (held by composer).
Performances of this work
Oct 98: featuring Contemporary Singers.
Jul 92: Edge Theatre, Newtown. Featuring Native Rose Music Theatre Company.
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