Australia’s leading vocal ensemble, The Song Company, ends their season program on a high note. Journey with them as they sing of a peace once thought unattainable; a celebration of 100 years since the ending of the Great War.
The poetry of 17th-century metaphysician John Donne and the late playwright Douglas Muecke form the twin doors to a world of remembrance and resurgence in a program framed by newly-commissioned music by three Australian composers: Ruth McCall, Ella Macens and Ross Edwards.
The Song Company’s Antony Pitts said: “With seven brand-new pieces ... as well as a striking motet by Owen Elsley, we are proud to be boldly championing Australian music for voices.
“There's a good deal of simply beautiful music in the program, including Russian composers Rachmaninov and Kalinnikov, and there's my own setting of John Donne's One Equal Music.”
The Song Company is at Blackheath Uniting Church on Saturday, November 3 at 3pm. See www.song.company/one-equal-music.