Visions of Peace – Sun 3 Dec 23

Cantabile Choir presents

 Visions of Peace

Sunday, 3 December 23 from 4:00-5:00 pm 

Christ Church Brunswick, 8 Glenlyon Rd., Brunswick

Tickets: $25 full, $20 concession card/student available from www.trybooking.com/CMCNU


Peace is often hard-won, and Cantabile Choir’s last concert of 2023 presents both the struggle and the ultimate clarity and serenity of the quest for reconciliation.  From Arvo Pärt’s hauntingly beautiful setting of the ancient Knights Templar chant Da Pacem Domine, through to the quiet and not-so-quiet defiance of Negro spirituals, from the apocalyptic darkness of Samuel Barber’s Twelfth Night to the loving acceptance of Dan Forrest’s Good Night, Dear Heart.

Visions of Peace draws on music from the 15th to the 21st centuries to present a truthful look at the road to peace. Come celebrate, meditate, and marvel with Cantabile Choir in the peaceful surrounds of Christ Church, Brunswick.

Full programme: Da Pacem Domine (Arvo Pärt)  Ubi Caritas (Maurice Duruflé) Ave Maria (Josquin des Prez) Ave Verum Corpus (Francis Poulenc) Steal Away (trad arr Bob Chilcott) Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel (trad arr Paul Hart) A Tender Shoot (Colin Davey) Twelfth Night (Samuel Barber) Lully, Lulla, Lullay (Philip Stopford) Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock) Sir Christèmas (William Matthias) Good Night (Dan Forrest)

A Cool Day and a Shining Night – Sunday July 23, 2023 2:30pm

Sunday July 23, 2023 2:30pm

Estonia House, 43 Melville Rd., West Brunswick

A Cool Day and a Shining Night

Seating will be cabaret-style at tables, so please bring your own snacks and drinks including beer and wine to enjoy along with the music.  Tea and coffee, plates and glasses provided

Tickets $25 full, $20 concession card/student, available to book online at: www.trybooking.com/CIMZY or at the door.

A Cool Day and a Shining Night performance details

Programme:
Now is the Cool of the Day: Jean Ritchie arr. Kevin Siegfried;
The Monk and his Cat, The Coolin, To be Sung on the Water, Sure on this Shining Night: Samuel Barber; Finlandia setting: Jan Sibelius;
O Salutaris Hostia: Eriks Esenvalds;
Northern Lights, The Rose: Ola Gjeilo;
Huits Chansons Francaises (1, 2, 4): Francis Poulenc.

To contact choir: www.cantabile.net.au

A Garden of Earthly Delights

Sunday March 5 2023 at 2:30 pm  

St George’s Anglican Church, 41 Baroda St., Travancore  

The late 19th century and early 20th century was a time not only of political and economic upheaval and strife, but also of enormous experimentation and innovation in music, literature, visual and performing arts. While we do not expect A Garden of Earthly Delights to generate the riots that greeted the 1913 premiere of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky collaboration on The Rite of Spring, we guarantee surprises and challenges as well as delights.  Whether you are being stung and poisoned by Britten’s Marsh Flowers, exalted by the neoclassicism of Standford’s Beati Quorum Via, chilled by the hail and ice of Debussy’s Hiver (Winter,) amused by the amorous adventures of folk heroes Mirko and John the broomcutter, or soothed by lullabies, we can guarantee as much variety as you would find in a programme spanning centuries rather than decades, followed by culinary delights served in the airy church hall. 

Programme: 

Beati Quorum Via Charles Stanford  

Trois Chansons Claude Debussy 

Con Amores Mi Madre  Anchieta arr Bob Chilcott 

Maranoa Lullaby  Gungarri arr Arthur Loam   

Gondoliera Clara Schumann   

Handsome Mirko  Yugoslav Folk arr Matyas Seiber 

 Five Flower Songs  Benjamin Britten 

Tickets: $25 full; $20 Student/Concession 

www.trybooking.com/CFOCO or at door 

Pre-booking advised—limited seating

My Spirit Sang All Day

Date Saturday 3 September 2022 at 4:00 pm

Venue St. George’s Anglican Church, 55 Lucknow St. Travancore

Tickets $20 Full; $15 Concession from www.trybooking.com/CBBUR or cash at the door.

COVID As social distancing will not be possible Cantabile encourages the use of masks.

Barbara Chalmer – Director, Guest Pianist – Ioanna Salmanidis
Cantabile is delighted to be returning to one of our favourite concert venues, St. George’s Anglican Church, Travancore, for our first post-lockdown concert.  The concert reflects our spirit of celebration with a selection of short works ranging from the energetic polyphony of Renaissance composers Arcadelt, Palestrina, Viadana, Sweelinck, and Monteverdi through to subtly colourful art songs of Finzi and Britten and the lush romanticism of contemporary Cuban composer Beatriz Corona.  Pianist Ioanna Salmanidis will add an instrumental complement with works by Schubert, Chopin, and Melbourne composer Esther Rofe.  We feel sure that you will find something to make your spirit sing.

In the Company of Stained Glass

17 November 2019

Christ Church Brunswick, 8 Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick

Featuring choral and organ works by Monteverdi, Bach, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, Gjeilo and others

The Bold and the Beautiful

75 Reid St., North Fitzroy.

Drawing upon composers from the 16th to the 21st centuries, The Bold and the Beautiful explored choral expressions of religious exaltation, the boldness of romance, and the beauty of nature and the heavens. The ethereal sound of the glass harp accompaniment to Érik Ešenvald’s “Stars” raised goosebumps, and contrasted with the richness of the 5-7 part settings of other works.

Reservoir Library

Reservoir Public Library, 23 Edwardes St., Reservoir, and

Northcote Public Library 32-38 Separation St, Northcote.

A community service supported by the Darebin City Councils’ Community Support Program

Cradle to Grave

Lullabies, Love Songs and Laments

Works by Gibbons, Hassler, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Taverner, Whitacre & more

with Actor Geoffrey Baird with readings and reflections on Rites of Passage

St. Georges Anglican Church, 55 Lucknow St. Travancore