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New Choristers are welcome to inquire for the 2010 season. Commencing mid January... We rehearse on Tuesdays at 7.30pm in the ANU School of Music (in Rehearsal Room 3, Level 5, Civic side of the building along corridor from the lift -- ie our usual time and place).
2010
Coming up in 2010:
REHEARSALS:
The rehearsals for 2010 commenced on Tuesday 2 February 2010.
From 9 Feb 2010, at the ANU School of Music, lecture room 3, level 5 (through instructor's rooms; go left from the lift or stairs, follow corridor, pass two rehearsal rooms on your right, enter the open space beyond, go to the corridor, enter the first door on the right.)
Event: Symphony in the Park (Closing concert of Canberra Festival) -- This is a free concert
Date: Sunday 14 March, at 7pm
Venue: Stage 88
Conductor: Guy Noble
The Llewellyn Choir with singers from Canberra Choral Society join with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for a concert to end the Canberra Festival.
Orchestral and choral music by: Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, Smetana, Borodin, Wagner, Rowland, Hindson, Mascagni, Rossini, Handel, and Offenbach.
Chief Minister's Media Release (no real details!)
Canberra Symphony Orchestra's Grand Gala:
Verdi's Requiem
Saturday, 3 July 2010, 7:30pm
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
The Llewellyn Choir as part of the Canberra Combined Choir with Canberra Choral Society, Scuna and Oriana Choral
CSO link
18 September 2010
30th Anniversary concert
Brahms Requiem
December 2010
Christmas concert - tba
2009
5 December 2009, 7.30pm
St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka
Feliz Navidad (A Latin Christmas)
Featuring works by Argentina's famous composer
Ariel Ramírez (link):
‘Misa Criolla’ (1964) and ‘Navidad Neustra’ (1964)
plus latin carols and poetry reading, guitar and violin solos
Choirmaster: Rowan Harvy Martin
Tenors: Dominic Harvey & Michael Martin
plus keyboard and bass, latin guitar, and percussion
Piano/Keyboard: Anthony Smith (Choir Repetiteur)
Guitar: Mark Norton
Bass: Leigh Miller
Percussion:
Christina Hopgood
Charles Martin
Veronica Walshaw
Violin solo: Rowan Harvey-Martin
Poetry: Ted Briggs
Choirmaster: Rowan Harvey-Martin, recently returned from studying conducting in Europe and USA while supported by a Churchill Fellowship.
This concert extends the language repertoir of The Llewellyn Choir which has not sung in Spanish for many years.
The choir was delighted to have at the concert, His Excellency, the Ambassador for Argentina (link), Pedro Villagra Delgado, and his family. The Ambassador was able later to provide some insights into elements of the regional dialect of Spanish used by the composer, Ariel Ramírez, and kindly praised the choir for the concert.
Ariel Ramírez official website (Spanish translated to English - link)
Rehearsal schedule
2009 past...
Mostly Mendelssohn
Saturday 31 October 2009 @ 7.30pm - St Paul's Church, Manuka
Works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, and J.S. Bach
featuring
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, op. 52, called the "Hymn of Praise" (sung in English) [also called Lobgesang"] details
J.S. Bach: Cantata No 137 "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren" (BWV 137)
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: various songs
Conductor: Matthew Stuckings
Joining with The Llewellyn Choir as soloists:
Sopranos: Louise Page & Susan Ellis
Tenor: Michael Martin
Bass: Geoffrey Brennan
with a Chamber Ensemble
Details of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (aka Felix Mendelssohn) here.
Details of Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (later Hensel) here.
Felix Mendelssohn was arguably responsible for the revitalisation of interest in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, so the concert will pay due tribute with Bach's Cantata No 137 "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren".
Poster (link, 85kB)
See other past performances below.
11–18 July -- a reprise of the Fauré Requiem and Bruckner motets during a choir tour to
Noumea, New Caledonia
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem
Conductor: Rowan Harvey Martin
Soprano: Rebecca Collins
Bass: Stephen Bennett
Organ: Anthony Smith
Violin: Michelle Higgs
Trip reports:
We were privileged to be hosted by "Les Alizés", a choir in Noumea led by Sarah Briggs. Members of Les Alizés overwhelmed us with their generous support of us during the week of rehearsals and two concerts, on Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 July 2009 in Saint Joseph Cathedral. (See a mention here.)
Les Alizés also hosted a wonderful Bastille Day luncheon (picnic) with the two choirs singing a selection of French songs.
(16 July)
What a wonderful social life there is in Noumea! On Friday 31 July 2009, excerpts of Puccini's 1880 work "Messa" ("Messa di gloria") were performed by another choir in Noumea, from "l'Ecole Territoriale de Musique" (ETM), at the official function for the Third France-Oceania Summit at which Bernard Kouchner, France's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, led the French delegation. link As reported by a member of both choirs, the security was tight to get in, and at the end "champagne as much as one like, 'petits fours', small variety of pastries...." and the approbabtion of the Director of "l'Ecole Territoriale de Musique" (ETM). Très bon, les amis!
Image library (flickr.com)
20 June 2009 -- Requiems Francais
Requiems, by
Gabriel Fauré
and
Maurice Duruflé
at
St Christopher's Cathedral, Manuka ACT;
7.30pm Saturday 20th June 2009
Conductor: Rowan Harvey Martin
Soprano: Rebecca Collins
Bass: Stephen Bennett
Tenor: Michael Martin
Chamber Emsemble
16 May -- Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra
Review/article: "Uplifted by melody - Canberra Symphony Orchestra gala"
Canberra Times 22 May 2009, Times2 "About Town" (p9)
Story and Photos: Lyn Mills
It was a sit back and listen kind of night. A reminder of a friend's famous line - "shut up and listen, you might learn something" - that will, I believe, be immortalised soon at that place of great orators (or so they think), the National Press Club. But I digress - as I did with the listening - from the occasion that was the Actew Grand Gala, with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra playing a premiere performance of the Meale Suite from Voss and, joy of joys, the Ninth, or more correctly Beethoven's Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op125 (the "Choral"), conducted by the charming Nicholas Milton on yet another speedy trip to Canberra and supported by the oh-so-impressive combined choirs. And therein lies the thinking of how well we support the orchestra when the combined choir is included, because not only are they superb but they have lots of family who want to see them perform. What a marketing success. I was thinking too how fabulous the percussion for the Voss was and how well we've nicked bits from the Beethoven over the years, discovering a new one in the program notes about its use by the students throughout Tiananmen Square in June 1989 as protest music.
It's a momentous moment when soaring voices become the music to take your thoughts to another dimension, another universe, where everything is all right with the world and when we can listen to what Beethoven could not hear but knew would be music for the whole world."
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Federal MP Bob McMullin (left) is the current Patron of the choir,
seen here with (then choir President) Richard Jones and
former Patron, and the former ACT Government MLA, Bill Woods (right).
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