SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR PRESENTS ‘A ROYAL AFFAIR’

Artists

Sydney Chamber Choir
Sam Allchurch Conductor
The Muffat Collective

The Program

Williamson Love, the Sentinel
Williamson Symphony for Voices
Weir The Song Sung True
Weir A Blue True Dream of Sky
Weir Love Bade me Welcome
Handel Dettingen Te Deum
Handel Zadok the Priest

The concert will feature Masterworks from two Masters of the Queen’s Music, plus two of Handel’s grandest royal works.

The first non-Briton to hold the royal appointment, Malcolm Williamson brought a larrikin spirit to the role. ‘Most of my music is Australian,’ he said, ‘not the bush or the deserts, but the brashness of the cities. The sort of brashness that makes Australians go through life pushing doors marked pull.’ His Symphony for Voices is a visionary work that explores the spirituality of the Australian landscape.

Current Master of the Queen’s Music, Scottish composer Judith Weir, offers a more intimate musical experience, drawing on writers as diverse as Shakespeare, e.e. cummings and Edward Lear. Music and poetry intertwine in a rich tapestry of choral colour.

George Friedrich Handel was never actually Master of the King’s Music, but as Composer to the Chapel Royal he wrote the most famous regal music of all: Zadok the Priest, which has graced every British coronation since Handel composed it for King George II in 1727. His Dettingen Te Deum is on an even grander scale: bold, triumphant and utterly thrilling.

DATE
Saturday June 1 @ 7.30pm at the Great Hall, University of Sydney

For more about A Royal Affair, visit https://sydney.edu.au/
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