Academy Singers, conducted by the Paul Terracini, is presenting a magnificent program of divine choral music in two venues at each end of the mountains, enabling all Mountains choral enthusiasts to attend.
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The first concert is on Sunday, November 12 at 3pm at St Finbar’s Church, Glenbrook, and the second concert is a week later on Sunday, November 19 at the Hoskins Memorial Church Lithgow, also at 3pm.
The concert’s title ‘The Mystery of Earth’ reflects the nature of the pieces in the program, including the refined and mysterious ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ by Morten Lauridsen, the dreamlike ‘Seal Lullaby’ composed by Eric Whitacre after a poem by Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Bainton’s joyous ‘And I Saw A New Heaven’ and the solemnly elegaic ‘Abschied Vom Walde’ (Farewell to the Woods) by Felix Mendelssohn.
The program concludes with “Across the Dark’ – by young Australian composer Ben van Tienen.
This is a setting of four poems by the beloved cartoonist Michael Leunig, and the last of the songs features Leunig's homage to the duck, a creature that is, for him (having studied its significance in German folklore in particular) 'a symbol of transcendence.'
Of particular interest to the audience is the inclusion of a church organ for this concert, performed by the renowned Amy Johansen who will play Mendelssohn Organ Sonata No 3, and J S Bach's setting of Martin Luther's chorale: Ein feste Burg, from Bach's Cantata BWV 80.
A delicious afternoon tea will be served in the church hall after the concert.
Tickets are available at the door $25 adults, $20 concession, and $10 children available at the door or at www.academysingers.com.au.
