Astra's 2012 choral series
4 concerts for voices and instruments
concert 4
3 pm Sunday 6 May
Sacred Heart Church
Corner Rathdowne and Pelham
Streets, Carlton
POEMS OF THE END
Christoph Demantius,
ST JOHN PASSION (1631) – 6-part choir
Keith Humble, TRIO 5 (1995) – trumpet, trombone and organ first performance
Dan Dediu LUX AETERNA Concerto for
mezzo-soprano and choir a capella (1996)
first performance
with works by Clemens Non Papa, Charles Ives, Paul Dessau, Hanns
Eisler & Stefan Wolpe
Elizabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Jerzy Kozlowski
(solo bass)
Tristram Williams (trumpet), Robert Collins (trombone), Rhys
Boak (organ)
Kim Bastin (organ), Timothy Phillips (percussion)
The Astra Choir conducted by John McCaughey
Astra’s 2012 concert season continues with a large choral program in one of Melbourne’s grandest acoustic spaces at the Carlton Sacred Heart Church. Solo trumpet, trombone and organ join the Astra Choir and vocal soloists in a rich blend of unusual early music and recent works for voices and instruments ... more details
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Sound and Space: Astra and Architecture
'Music always interacts with the architecture in which it is heard, although classical music practice is sometimes slow to realize this. In Melbourne many of the best concert-spaces are buildings not built for that purpose – the splendid heritage of public and ecclesiastical constructions from the first 100 years of the city’s history, as well as industrial and more recent buildings.'
This site, a collaboration between Astra and Culture Victoria, uses images and recordings to document how musical and architectural designs have formed an interactive partnership over three decades of Astra events.
Read the article in The Age about Astra's 60th and the final concert for 2011
