2022 END-OF-YEAR APPEAL
11 December 2022
SONGS OF THE SEA (BALLARAT)
8 February 202319 MARCH 2023 12PM
Presented by Australian Boys Choral Institute and Australian Digital Concert Hall
Sunday 19 March 2023 at 12:00pm - 1:30pmDeakin Edge, Federation Square | Flinders Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Over 100 vibrant voices come together in this exciting first event of the 2023 Australian Boys Choir concert season. Headlined by the outstanding singers of The Vocal Consort, with appearances by the Australian Boys Choir Performing Squad and ABCI Training Groups.
Presented in association with Australian Digital Concert Hall, featuring stunning repertoire by Sarah Hopkins, Lydia Jane Pugh, Dulcie Holland, Paul Stanhope, Dan Walker, Stephen Leek, David Hamilton, Randall Thompson, Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- Doors open at 11:30am, concert starts at 12:00pm sharp. This performance has one interval of 15 minutes. Latecomers will not be permitted until a suitable break in the performance.
- No photography or videographers permitted, audience members should note this performance is being recorded.
- Our 2023 season will also by live-streamed via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. For more information regarding our four-concert digital subscription available world-wide, please see the ADCH website.
ARTISTS
Nicholas Dinopoulos, conductor
The Vocal Consort
The Australian Boys Choir
Training Groups of the ABCI
Dean Sky-Lucas, piano
PROGRAM
Past Life Melodies | Sarah Hopkins (Australia, b. 1958)
Down the Open Road | Lydia Jane Pugh (UK, b. 1986)
Tarantella | Randall Thompson (United States, 1899-1984)
Drinking Song from Sir John in Love | Ralph Vaughan Williams (UK, 1872-1958)
La-La Land from Losing the Plot | Paul Stanhope (Australia, b.1969)
Where the West Begins from Songs for the Open Road | David Hamilton (New Zealand, b.1955)
The Girl from Ipanema | Antônio Carlos Jobim (Brazil, 1927-1994) arr. Matan Franco
She Moved Through the Fair | Traditional Irish arr. Timothy Takach (2009)
Cutty Sark from Voices of a Land | Stephen Leek (Australia, b.1959)
Sailing Time | Dulcie Holland (Australia, 1913-2000)
Beati Quorum Via | Charles Villiers Stanford (Ireland, 1852-1924)
The Mulligan Musketeers | Robert Whitman Atkinson (United States, 1868-1934)
You, Me and the Wide Open Sky | Dan Walker (Australia, b. 1978)