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Gillian Whitehead  

The Virgin and the Nightingale

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1986
five songs for voices

  • Instrumentation
    sop, m-sop,A,T,Bari,B choir or sextet. Optional melody instrument - flute. If one soprano has a virtuoso high light voice that could undertake the flute line, the upper voices in 1 and 5 can be rearranged between soprano 2 and alto.
  • Programme Note

    The Virgin and the Nightingale was commissioned by Jones and Co with funding from the Music Board of the Australia Council, and first performed by The Song Company in 1992. The poems are taken from Fleur Adcock’s collection of translations of mediaeval poems published by Bloodaxe Books as The Virgin and the nightingale, with kind permission of author and publisher. The five songs all focus on birds; the flute part in Love’s Agent is a (transposed) transcription of a nightingale song. The settings are for SSATTB choir. The songs can be performed as a set or separately; some of them are suitable for choir.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

The Woman at the Store

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1997
an opera in one short act for four soloists with piano accompaniment

Anthony Ritchie  

Then I Understood

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 1996
for choir and orchestra

Kit Powell  

Vlaminck's Tie

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1985, r. 1994
song cycle for singer with piano accompaniment