DICHTERLIEBE REIMAGINED
CLOSE-UP: Koen van Stade – Dichterliebe as Schumann might have imagined it
ARMS OF LOVE
MAINSTAGE: Buxtehude’s monumental meditation on suffering and the human body set with contemporary Indigenous dance, and a major new Australian work from Chris Williams. The Song Company and choreographer-dancer Thomas E.S. Kelly – from contemporary Indigenous dance company Karul Projects – reunite in a pageant of light and movement to Membra Jesu Nostri by Dieterich Buxtehude and I pray the sea by Australian composer Chris Williams, commissioned with funding from the Silo Collective and setting words from No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani. Williams’s flotilla of seven short fragments and one extended final movement is interspersed with Buxtehude’s intimate 17th-century cycle of seven cantatas on the physical and spiritual aspects of the Crucifixion. Co-curated/directed by Robert Macfarlane, with choreography by Thomas E.S. Kelly, against the background of an ongoing refugee crisis at home and abroad.
BURDEN OF TRUTH
MAINSTAGE & IN CAMERA: Transience and homelessness in the world première of a new 32-part setting of Gavin Bryars' classic Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet and a remake of a legendary canon from the Eton Choirbook. MAINSTAGE TOUR
INTO THE HEART – our 2021 Season
As the times become more uncertain, Australia's national vocal ensemble sings with more certainty than ever – from and into the heart! With COVID continuing to have an impact on our lives in different ways, but particularly affecting gathering together in one place, and moving inter-state, we have created a 2021 season that is as nimble and transformative in a positive way as the virus is negatively.
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BURDEN OF TRUTH | Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet – 50th Anniversary World Première | Gavin Bryars talks to Antony Pitts
Gavin Bryars talks to Antony Pitts in the 50th anniversary year of Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet about the genesis of the piece and of his new choral a cappella version, recorded by The Song Company and friends in 2020 for the Burden of Truth project, with a live tour in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra in May/June 2021.
2021 INTO THE HEART – Three MainStage Concert Tours
The Song Company's Artistic Director, Antony Pitts, introduces 2021's MainStage tours: Burden of Truth, Arms of Love, and Songs From The Heart.
BURDEN OF TRUTH | THE MAKING OF A LOCKDOWN ALBUM: The Recording
Behind-the-scenes: sixteen of the singers on the Burden of Truth album talk about recording at home, recording alone, and recording perfection...
ARTIST SONGBOOK – The Show Must Go On [SAMPLER]
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2021 INTO THE HEART – A Preview
Where we should be heading in 2021: INTO THE HEART – Antony Pitts, Artistic Director of Australia's national vocal ensemble, The Song Company, previews the 2021 season and explains how to connect with us online!
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POWER CHORDS LIVE | Erin
From The Omnific & The Song Company's 2019 Power Chords Attached tour
NINETEEN TO THE DOZEN | Josephine Gibson (world première in the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House)
Nineteen to the Dozen is a tapestry of nineteen commissions from Australian composers playlisted against fragmented miniatures from each of the last 12 centuries – this extract is by Josephine Gibson... Nineteen to the Dozen – A tapestry of nineteen compact commissions from Australian composers playlisted against fragmented miniatures from each of the last 12 centuries. This extract is by Josephine Gibson. The commissions were supported by our generous donors.
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