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Performance by Noel Ancell, Australian Boys Choir, The Vocal Consort from the CD Calls & cries |
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Calls & cries : recent choral music of Australia / Australian Boys Choir & The Vocal Consort ; conductor: Noel Ancell
Library shelf no. CD 2017 [Available for loan]
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Score
Araluen : for mixed voices (SATB) a cappella / [music by] Matthew Orlovich ; [text by] Roland Robinson.
Library shelf no. 782.55542/ORL 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Scored for a cappella SATB choir, Araluen is a setting
of the first verse of Roland Robinson's poem of the same
name.
The text of the verse describes the poet's journey to 'Araluen',
a gold-rush shanty town in southern New South Wales, Australia.
A languorous day. The sky without a cloud.
Winding, doubling round, the red-brown road
climbed through sun and bird song-shafted gloom
towards receding smoke haze and grape bloom
mountains. Then, emerged at last, it ran
into a valley drenched by a blazing sun.
(Roland Robinson, 'Araluen' [1st verse], in Selected
Poems,
A&R Modern Poets, 1989. p.23-24).
Modulations in music often suggest to me ideas of 'journeying' or
of 'changing gears' and I have used a series of modulations
throughout my setting of 'Araluen'. I also like to use syncopated
rhythms for their ability to energise and move the music along.
Work Details
Year: 2000
Instrumentation: SATB choir.
Duration: 5 min.
Difficulty: Medium
Commission note: Commissioned by Graeme Morton for performance by St Peters Chorale.
First performance: by St Peters Chorale, Graeme Morton — Dec 00. International tour of USA and Canada
Subjects
- Has as subject/About: Landscape and Nature
Performances of this work
24 Sep 2014: at Burgundian Consort @UNSW - Della terra (Sir John Clancy Auditorium). Featuring Burgundian Consort.
5 Jun 2010: at The Listening Land (Berwick Masonic Hall). Featuring Da Capo Singers, Simon Loveless.
Dec 00: International tour of USA and Canada. Featuring St Peters Chorale, Graeme Morton.
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