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COVID-19 – cancellations and updates
We’ll try to keep the Choral Calendar up-to-date with concert cancellations and postponements. Keep your eye on this, and also our Facebook page.
To date, all Music at the Basilica concerts and the Music at the Basilica May Festival are cancelled, and the Western District Choral Festival is in doubt. St Mary’s Easter concert “The Seven Last Words of Christ” will be postponed.
Massed choirs finale at Western District Choral Festival, Warrnambool, 2019
WDCF 2018, Geelong – Singers mass on stage for “Africa”
Hello Helen,
My name is Chris Poynter, I am a member of the Melbourne Bach Choir,
I would like to submit the following concert listing for inclusion in the Choral Grapevine.
Kind regards, Chris Poynter
The Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir will be presenting a program of French works at the Ballarat Central Uniting Church on Sunday June 30th at 2:30pm
The concert combines Gabriel Fauré’s sublime Requiem, one of the best-loved of all choral works, with shorter secular pieces from the French repertoire. Debussy’s sensitive settings of 15th century poems by Charles d’Orleans contrast with Ravel’s exquisite Trois Chansons, where both the composer’s own texts and music are full of archaic references. Fauré’s witty Madrigal and a selection of Saint-Saëns’ expressive songs complete the program.
Rick Prakhoff will conduct the Melbourne Bach Choir, with soloists Emilia Bertolini, soprano, and Jeremy Kleeman bass-baritone, together with renowned Australian composer and organist Calvin Bowman.
Tickets for this concert may be purchased online through http://www.trybooking.com/BBRBBK
Adults: $50. Concession $40, and Students $20
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