Conductor: David Mackay

ORGAN: CALLUM TOLLHURST-CLOSE

5:00pm, SATURDAY 5 April 2025

Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest

Program

Benjamin Britten - The Procession of the Four Sweet Months

Eric Whitacre - Go, Lovely Rose

Eric Whitacre - I Hide Myself

Tallis - Videte Miraculum

Beatriz Corona - Corazón Coraza

Richard Rodney Bennett - The Glory and the Dream

TICKETS

$45 Full price

$35 Seniors Card holders / Concession

These are the days of miracle and wonder … this is the long distance call … the way we look to a distant constellation that’s dying in a corner of the sky (Paul Simon)

Wonder and miracles trace a line through our program, from elements of the Christmas story set to music by 16th-century Catholic composers Tomas Luis de Victoria and Thomas Tallis, all the way through to Richard Rodney Bennett’s vibrant 2000 setting of Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality for organ and chorus.

Stopping in 1980s Cuba (Beatriz Corona 'Corazón Coraza'), 1950s Devon (Britten 'The Succession of the Four Sweet Months'), Las Vegas in the early 90s (Eric Whitacre 'Go, lovely rose' and 'I hide myself'), and, in 1911, to a country fair in Shropshire in the years between the Boer War and the Great War (Butterworth 'The Lads in their Hundreds').

In every one of the works we present in this concert, we are drawn to look beyond the surface of things, and to seek their deeper meaning. Not all lead to happiness, but all point to a sense of awe - of engaging with something greater than ourselves. And what better way to convey this than with the most flexible of all musical instruments: the human voice.