Score
Paradise unseen / music: Nigel Butterley ; text: Kathleen Raine.
Library shelf no. 782.5554/BUT 1 [Available for loan]
Work Details
Year: 2001
Instrumentation: SATBarB choir (or vocal sextet: 2 sopranos, alto, tenor, baritone, bass).
Duration: 12 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Professional soloists/good amateur choir.
Contents note: In 7 movements.
Commission note: Commissioned by The Song Company.
First performance: by The Song Company — Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Text from Seven poems by Kathleen Raine.
Includes slightly revised version of an earlier work Sleep.
This work can be performed either by soloists or choir.
Analysis
Program note: Paradisde Unseen
Nigel Butterley
Source: The Song Company Modern Art Series 16, 17 June 2001
Review: The Song Company Modern Art Series Tears of Things 17 June 2001
Peter McCallum
Source: Sydney Morning Herald 19 June 2001
Program note: The Song Company Icons
Roland Peelman
Source: The Song Company Icons March 2005
Performances of this work
Unknown date: Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.. Featuring The Song Company.
10 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room). Featuring The Song Company.
9 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room). Featuring The Song Company.
4 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Wollongong Art Gallery). Featuring The Song Company.
3 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest). Featuring The Song Company.
1 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Newcastle Conservatorium). Featuring The Song Company.
26 Aug 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Melbourne Recital Centre). Featuring The Song Company.
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