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1 MUSCAL DRECTOR JOHN McCAUGHEY 2A0

2 CONCERT 1 6 PM SATURDAY 1 AND 6 PM SUNDAY 2 MAY + TBC: LATE-SHOW 8.15 PM SATURDAY 1 MAY ELEVENTH HOUR THEATRE 170 LECESTER ST, FTZROY Seating is limited and booking is recommended GRAEME LEAK RETROSPECT & PROSPECT 2010 WTH NEL THOMAS, ASSOCATE PERFORMER nstruments, installations, video: compositions, performance, theatre Graeme Leak (composer, constructor and percussionist) Neil Thomas (vocalist) Michael Hewes (sound/visual realisation) Australia s seminal composer/performer/inventor Graeme Leak returns to the Astra series after several years, with a new program of his own work, bridging fi elds of instrument invention, environment art, solo percussion and theatre.

3 CONCERT 2 5 PM SATURDAY 5 JUNE, 5 PM SUNDAY 6 JUNE GASWORKS THEATRE 21 GRAHAM ST, ALBERT PARK Bookings through Gasworks on: (+ $3 booking fee) or online: gasworks.org.au (no booking fee) in collaboration with SEASON DANCE, CHOR, VOCE directed by Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and James McCaughey LACRMAE RERUM ACTOR, CHOR, SOLO VOCES & DANCE AT GASWORKS Helen Gifford THE TEARS OF THNGS (2009) cantata for actor/singer, solo speakers and choir texts from May Tilton s memoir and Virgil s Aeneid Heinrich Schütz MUSKALSCHE EXEQUEN A GERMAN REQUEM (1636) choir, solo voices, viola da gamba and organ Claude Le Jeune, Darius Milhaud, Philippe Hersant CHORAL PSALMS (1600/1954/1995) Dance Exchange/director Russell Dumas Jane Nolan (actor) Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba), Kim Bastin (organ) The Astra Choir with solo singers and speakers, conducted by John McCaughey CONCERT 3 6 PM SATURDAY 19 AND SUNDAY 20 JUNE ELEVENTH HOUR THEATRE 170 LECESTER ST, FTZROY Seating is limited and booking is recommended NEW SONG CYCLES JERZY KOZLOWS & MCHAEL KERAN HARVEY Michael Bertram UNDERGROUND SONGS (2008) cycle on poems by Siegried Sassoon, Anne Finch, WB Yeats and others Lawrence Whiffi n TME STEALS SOFTER (2009) cycle on poems by George Genovese with solo piano works by Lawrence Whiffi n Solo bass Jerzy Kozlowski has given two previous sell-out Astra recitals inspiring Melbourne composers Lawrence Whiffi n and Michael Bertram to write new song-cycles for him. The two cycles are premiered in this concert marking the 80th year of Lawrence Whiffi n and 75th of Michael Bertram. Helen Gifford s chronicle from the First World War was composed for actor Jane Nolan with solo speakers and the Astra Choir. t relates the story of Sister May Tilton, set against choral texts drawn from Virgil s Aeneid. The new piece is framed by French and German music from times of conflict. Schütz s powerful funeral composition from the Thirty Years War opens into the further fi eld of dance part of an exploratory season at Gasworks Theatre with the celebrated group Dance Exchange.

4 CONCERT 4 5 PM SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER FTZROY TOWN HALL CORNER NAPER & MOOR EETS, FTZROY MNDS AT PLAY SCENTFC CANTATA, NG GAMES, CHORAL EXPERMENT Martin Friedel CTES OF THE MND (2002/2010) cantata for soloists, choir, string quartet, winds, percussion and keyboards revised version, with Dan Dediu HARMONC LABYRNTH AND FUGUE (1999) choir a cappella Neil Kelly FLUSH (FOR FOUR PLAYERS) (2005) string quartet/card game choral works by Hildegard, Bach, Philip Corner and Pauline Oliveros The Astra Choir with soloists and instrumental players, conducted by John McCaughey CONCERT 5 6 PM SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER NORTHCOTE TOWN HALL 189 HGH ST, NORTHCOTE SYMPHONC TO CHAMBER PERSPECTVES FROM BEETHOVEN & YEATS Ludwig Van Beethoven MSSA SOLEMNS OP.123 ( ) arrangement for soloists, choir and chamber ensemble with music by Webern, Keith Humble and Rohan Drape The Astra Choir, soloists and chamber ensemble conducted by John McCaughey Beethoven s great multi-form reading of the Mass offers faces of both singularity and collective grandeur. n the chamber dimensions of this new arrangement it resonates in other instrumental music, and meets another famous late work, Yeats s glittering Byzantium poem, in a new spatialized setting. Martin Friedel s cantata about the brain, psychology and cybernetics, the nature of thought and consciousness, was fi rst performed by Astra in 2002, and is heard in a revised version, among a colourful procession of choral works and Neil Kelly s new mind-game for string quartet.

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