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September 2, 2017 7:30PM • Knox Church

Lullabies

Concert

DAVID BURCHELL, conductor SOPHIE MORRIS, soprano CLAIRE BARTON, mezzo-soprano ALEX LEE, baritone CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN COLUMBA COLLEGE and ST HILDA’s CHOIRS

“Anthony Ritchie... one of the greatest composers of his time.”

City Choir is pleased to present Anthony Ritchie’s Lullabies, composed in 2015 for soprano, adult and children’s choirs. It is a cycle of six songs to poems by Dunedin-based poet Elena Poletti.

Lullabies are common to all cultures, and are richly varied in their themes and moods. These six lullabies traverse different perspectives, both from the adult and from the child. In some the parent calms the child for sleep by conjuring up various gentle images, while in others it is the children singing the songs to put them in the sleep frame of mind. All the forces come together in the last song, to round off the cycle.

“Anthony’s music is engaging – energetic, beautifully crafted and imbued with a distinct melodic touch.”

Also on the programme:

Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, first performed in 1947 at the end of World War II, was dedicated to the memory of his father. Duruflé’s Requiem is calmer and more meditative than some other settings of the requiem. The beautiful Pie Jesu movement has the only solo for the mezzo-soprano.

Duruflé was incredibly self-effacing, and spent considerable time re-working his compositions until they achieved what he felt was the correct level of perfection. In this work he took the Gregorian plainchant Mass for the Dead as his raw material, clothing the sometimes archaic-sounding melodies in the sophisticated harmonies of the early modern school. Duruflé’s sensuous harmonies suffuse every note with feeling. Duruflé explains: “This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from human concerns. It reflects, in the unchanging form of Christian prayer, the anguish of man faced with the mystery of his final end.”

Tickets from Beggs MusicWorks or Knox Church Office 9 am-noon (Cash or cheque to Dunedin Choral Society) Online at www.eventfinda.co.nz/2017/lullabies/dunedin Adult $35, Concession $25, Student $10, Child free

Start time

September 2, 2017 7:30PM


Location

Knox Church
449 George St, North Dunedin, Dunedin 9016