Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

Work

Dreams and visions (satb choir with soloists and chamber ensemble)

by John Peterson (2011)

Score Sample

View a sample of the score of this work

Audio Sample

Performance by Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir, Sarah Penicka-Smith from the CD Dreams & visions

Selected products featuring this work — Display all products (2 more)

Dreams & visions

Non-Commercial

This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.

CD

Dreams & visions : by John Peterson / Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir.

Library shelf no. CD 2822 [Not for loan]

Display all products featuring this work (2 more)  

Work Overview

The texts for this work are derived from a broad range of poets, and explore essential themes about life that would be of interest to everyone: environmental concerns, the tragedy of death and the loss of loved ones, the nature of love and desire, and the need for everyone to work together as a community. The music is often very aggressive and rhythmic, but is also passionate and evocative.

Work Details

Year: 2011

Instrumentation: SATB mixed chorus, mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, string quartet, piano.

Duration: 50 min.

Difficulty: Medium

Contents note: Part 1: Dreams -- Part 2A:The Fire of Annihilation -- Part 2B: The Song of the Earth -- Part 3A: A Dream that was not all a Dream -- Part 3B: A Litany in a Time of Plague -- Part 3C: Let Me Rest / Lux Aeterna -- Part 4A: I Sing the Body Electric -- Part 4B: Love's Pure Flame -- Part 5A: Ours is the World of Love -- Part 5B: Interlude -- Part 5C: We are the Dreamers of Dreams.

Dedication note: Dedicated to the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir on the occasion of their twentieth anniversary.

Commission note: Commissioned by Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir with funds provided by City of Sydney.

First performance: by Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir, Sarah Penicka-Smith at Dreams and Visions (Marrickville Town Hall) on 5 Nov 2011

Performances of this work

22 Mar 2019: at Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir: Rise Up (Verbrugghen Hall). Featuring Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir.

8 Apr 2017: at Outback Odyssey - Jarman, Peterson, Walker (The Center (Washington, USA)). Featuring Masterwork Chorus.

3 Nov 2012: at Tchaikovsky: The Lonely Heart (Pitt Street Uniting Church). Featuring Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir.

5 Nov 2011: at Dreams and Visions (Marrickville Town Hall). Featuring Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir, Sarah Penicka-Smith.

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.

To post a comment please login.