A Sunburnt Christmas
Event description
December feels different down under. The air hums with cicadas and thunderstorms, gum leaves shimmer, the horizon wavers with heat. It is a season of long light, beach days and bush-fires alike, and of families gathered and scattered, of endings and new beginnings.
A Sunburnt Christmas brings together the shining voices of Luminescence Children’s Choir with pianist–composer Sally Whitwell, soprano Rachel Mink, and the Ellery String Quartet for a very-nearly-all-Aussie program about summertime, family, the fragile promise of new life, and the glowing heart of home. Forget snow and sleigh bells, A Sunburnt Christmas celebrates the festive season under Southern skies.
PROGRAMME
Late Spring Elena Kats-Chernin
To A Child David Hirschfelder
String Quartet in E Minor (mvt I) Miriam Hyde
The Fern Andrew Ford
Golden Slumber Andrew Ford
Summer Comes with Colour Calvin Bowman
Ecstatic Dances Ross Edwards
Sun Dried Quartet IV: Aloe Vera Alice Chance
Sumer is Icumen In Traditional arr. Sally Whitwell
Southern Star Christopher Willcock
Hot Tin Roof Juliana Kay
Gibba Plains Noel Stephen Leek
Dissolved Sally Whitwell
White Wine in the Sun Tim Minchin arr. Sally Whitwell
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