Arts
Town Hall: The Eye of Heaven (2)
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Helen Thomson (soprano) with Lynette Smith (piano), Janet Rutherford (viola), Genevieve Stather (clarinet) and Tracey Patten (percussion).
Loose Canon Chamber Singers directed by Elizabeth Eden and Helen Thomson with Anna Chilcott (piano) and Tracey Patten (percussion)
Sunday 31st July 3-30pm, Town Hall.
Tickets are $25 each, $20 concession – available at the door.
Loose Canon is pleased to present an afternoon of choral and vocal music by Australian composers. The programme will begin with Eizabeth Eden directing Loose Canon Chamber Singers in a series of choral favourites including works by Joseph Twist, Graeme Morton, Stephen Leek, Becky Llewellyn and Matthew Orlovich. Highlights will be Iain Grandage’s “Wheat belt” with Tracey Patten (percussion) and, Frank Hutchen’s “The Australian Sunrise”
Helen, Lynette and Janet will perform the world premiere of “Dark River”, a song cycle composer Ralph Middenway. The ensemble will also perform the world premiere of “Fragments of a Prayer” by David Cassat. In the final bracket, Thomson will direct Loose Canon in premieres of extracts from Middenway’s song cycle, “Eye of Heaven”; as well as his beautiful, contemplative “Lute-book Lullaby” and Cassat‘ sacred works, “O Magnum Mysterium” and “Psalmus “.
Sue Leschen, Loose Canon Chamber Singers