2010 Subscription Season

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Ave

Friday 16 April, 8 pm
Trinity College Chapel, Royal Parade, Parkville
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Our first concert in 2010 features settings that highlight the word ‘Ave’—Ave Maria, Ave Verum, Hail!

When you recall how often these texts are set in our style of choral music, their potential as a unifying theme is clear. The program includes music which celebrates light—by Charles Wood and others—and devotional settings by Byrd, Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Liszt, as well as music of Arvo Pärt and more. We will present this music in the beautiful acoustic space of Trinity College Chapel, at the University of Melbourne. No recording can do justice to the real quality of the sound, so this live performance will be an event to treasure. This is a concert for lovers of magnificent a cappella music from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Food and Wine

Sunday 27 June, 3 pm
Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy

For our winter concert, we return to the beautiful Fitzroy Town Hall, there to share food, wine and great music in a celebration of the good things in life. The repertoire is selected to assist the musical digestion of our audience. The menu commences with wonderful entrées from the English madrigal school of Gibbons, Morley, Henry VIII and others. A substantial main course consisting of Fragments from his dish (Bob Chilcott) and The big fat goose (di Lasso) follows, although if you prefer something a little lighter Richard Genée’s Insalata Italiano should satisfy. We are pleased to offer a range of sweets from many countries, including that of Zoltán Kodály. An afternoon of good music, food and wine, this concert promises to be indeed ‘pastime with good company’.

A Time, a Place

Friday 24 September, 8 pm
St John’s Anglican Church, 552 Burke Road, Camberwell

Emotions and experiences of love, passion, season and time have moved people throughout the ages. This is music of community and the lives of people of different places and times. We are looking forward to sharing some of the extraordinarily evocative masterpieces of Kodály’s Hungarian folksong suite Matra Pictures, his nocturnal music Esti Dal (Evening Song) and Peter Sculthorpe’s Night Piece. Other wonderful music by Australian-Argentinian Gerardo Dirié provides a local connection—but with an authentic Latin flavour. This concert allows us to explore some great choral settings that have been written around these themes and provides an opportunity for many wonderful pieces that may lie outside the scope of our usual concert programs. It is music of clearly defined national identity, European and Australian. We hope you will share our enthusiasm for this eclectic and intriguing program.

Sing Nowell!

Tuesday 7 December, 8.30 pm
Our Lady of Victories Basilica, 548 Burke Road, Camberwell

Friday 10 December, 8:30 pm
St Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne

Join the members of The Tudor Choristers as they celebrate Christmas with these annual concerts of carols. As usual, this year’s selection will be a mixture of the traditional and the less well known, chosen from many times and places.