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Araluen : for mixed voices (SATB) a cappella

by Matthew Orlovich (2000)

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Performance by Noel Ancell, Australian Boys Choir, The Vocal Consort from the CD Calls & cries

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Work Overview

Scored for a cappella SATB choir, Araluen is a setting of the first verse of Roland Robinson's poem of the same name.

The text of the verse describes the poet's journey to 'Araluen', a gold-rush shanty town in southern New South Wales, Australia.

A languorous day. The sky without a cloud.
Winding, doubling round, the red-brown road
climbed through sun and bird song-shafted gloom
towards receding smoke haze and grape bloom
mountains. Then, emerged at last, it ran
into a valley drenched by a blazing sun.


(Roland Robinson, 'Araluen' [1st verse], in Selected Poems,
A&R Modern Poets, 1989. p.23-24).

Modulations in music often suggest to me ideas of 'journeying' or of 'changing gears' and I have used a series of modulations throughout my setting of 'Araluen'. I also like to use syncopated rhythms for their ability to energise and move the music along.

Work Details

Year: 2000

Instrumentation: SATB choir.

Duration: 5 min.

Difficulty: Medium

Commission note: Commissioned by Graeme Morton for performance by St Peters Chorale.

First performance: by St Peters Chorale, Graeme Morton — Dec 00. International tour of USA and Canada

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Performances of this work

24 Sep 2014: at Burgundian Consort @UNSW - Della terra (Sir John Clancy Auditorium). Featuring Burgundian Consort.

5 Jun 2010: at The Listening Land (Berwick Masonic Hall). Featuring Da Capo Singers, Simon Loveless.

Dec 00: International tour of USA and Canada. Featuring St Peters Chorale, Graeme Morton.

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