Event
Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Closing Gala : The End of Time
- Date: Sunday, 15 October 2023, 2:00pm
- Venue: Reardon Theatre — 35 Bank St, Port Fairy, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival 2023 series
- Tickets: Adults: $49 | Concession: $42 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on +61 429 372 287
Event Details
The 2023 Closing Gala features lauded trio PLEXUS together with a gleaming array of soloists, instrumentalists, Port Fairy schoolchildren and a combined Southwest Victorian chorus, under the baton of dynamic maestro Peter Luff.
Melbourne-based ensemble Vox Plexus feature centrally in an acclaimed chamber arrangement of Stravinsky’s pinnacle of neoclassical beauty, the Symphony of Psalms, a symphonic declamation of psalmodic ritual on a grand scale. The entire ensemble joins forces for a spectacular finale led by heroic soloists Merlyn Quaife, Liane Keegan, and Christian Smith, as we inhabit the possessed paracosm of John of Patmos in his instant of apocalyptic epiphany.
Combining English texts from the Book of Revelation with the Latin Mass for the Dead, this twenty-first-century Requiem for the End of Time was glowingly received at its premiere as “jubilant and arresting… a rapturous, hour-long musical orgy that disintegrates any line between what’s sacred and profane.”
The 2023 festival is brought to an epic conclusion, as the final frontier of anthropocene habitat – what lies beyond – is theorised, hoped for, prayed to, and dreamed of, in a celebration of fragile yet resilient humanity.
Featured non-Australian music: Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on +61 429 372 287 or by email to ticketing@portfairyspringfest.com.au
Featured Australian Works
| Requiem for the End of Time : choir by Stefan Cassomenos — performed by Dermot Tutty, Suzanne Brimacomb, Christian Smith, Peter Luff, Liane Keegan, Merlyn Quaife and Plexus Ensemble | |
| Symphony of Psalms, arr. : chamber ensemble by Stefan Cassomenos and Igor Stravinsky — performed by Plexus Ensemble |
Featured artists
- Presented by Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
- Music of Stefan Cassomenos
- Performer Plexus Ensemble
- Performer Merlyn Quaife
- Performer Liane Keegan
- Conductor Peter Luff
- Performer Christian Smith
- Director Suzanne Brimacomb
- Director Dermot Tutty
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