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The Song Company: Nineteen to the Dozen

Event

The Song Company: Nineteen to the Dozen

  • Date: Thursday, 31 October 2019, 7:30pm
  • Venue: Art Gallery of Ballarat — 40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat, VIC
  • Series: This event is part of the The Song Company: Nineteen to the Dozen series
  • Tickets: Adult: $42 | Concession: $38 | Member: $36 | FT Student: $25 | Child (U15): $10 — Tickets can be purchased online

Event Details

An up-to-the-moment a cappella conversation without words
 
A tapestry of nineteen compact commissions from Australian composers playlisted against fragmented miniatures from each of the last 12 centuries.
 
In a bold attempt to paint the state of the current Australian compositional landscape, nineteen composers have been asked to fill a segment of time with sounds that draw on the rich heritage of The Song Company’s first 35 years and look forward to the countless possibilities of the human voice – using all 163 symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet and beyond. These nineteen commissions are set against fragments of art music from the last thousand years, and together form a dialogue about the nature of vocal music and the deepest form of musical expression.

New works by Alice Chance, Aristea Mellos, Bernie Van Tiel & Rex Le, Chris Williams, Colin Black, Dan Walker, Elizabeth Sheppard, Felicity Wilcox, Gordon Hamilton, Josephine Gibson, Lyle Chan, Matthew Hindson, Naomi Crellin, Natalie Maschmeyer, Owen Elsley, Sally Whitwell, Sarah Elise Thompson, Sonya Holowell, and Stephen Adams. Western music from the last 12 centuries is represented by Kassiani, Anonymous, Guido d'Arezzo, Hildegard of Bingen, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume de Machaut, John Dunstaple, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Bruckner, and Igor Stravinsky.

Featured non-Australian music: Kassiani, Guido d'Arezzo, Hildegard of Bingen, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume de Machaut, John Dunstaple, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Bruckner, Igor Stravinsky.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9156 2781

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