MUSCAL DRECTOR JOHN McCAUGHEY 2A0
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.
CONCERT 2 5 PM SATURDAY 5 JUNE, 5 PM SUNDAY 6 JUNE GASWORKS THEATRE 21 GRAHAM ST, ALBERT PARK Bookings through Gasworks on: 9699 3253 (+ $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.
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 (1819-23) 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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