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Rescheduled from November 2020
Lights In The Distance
Saturday
20 March
Elder Hall
Adelaide, 6.30pm
Saturday
20 March
Elder Hall
Adelaide, 8.30pm
We are all drawn to light. We plan the daily activity of our lives by the rhythm of its presence and absence; we use it to symbolise our emotional well-being; it is a metaphor for our understanding; we crave its spark for renewal; we seek its heat for warmth; we have made it a metaphor for hope – especially when we catch glimpses of it at the end of a long dark tunnel; and even in our funeral rites we sing of its power to bestow a peaceful eternity. For us, lights in the distance have often come to represent everything that is comforting, safe and familiar. Lights in the distance are often a sign that we are nearing home. Or if not home, then perhaps the next adventure!
Program Includes
O Nata Lux – Morten Lauridsen
Morgenstern – Arvo Pärt
Written in the Stars (World première performance) – Sally Whitwell
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (from Requiem) – Johannes Brahms
Lux Aeterna – Ivo Antonigni
Lux Arumque – Eric Whitacre
Bright Morning Stars – Folksong arr Christie Anderson
Conductor
Carl Crossin OAM
ACS Season 2021
Program 1. Renewal
Friday
14 May SOLD OUT
Art Gallery of SA
North Terrace, Adelaide, 7pm
Saturday
15 May
St Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide, 6.30pm
Sunday
16 May
Elder Hall
University of Adelaide, 2.30pm
WAITING LIST: If your preferred date is sold out, email us and we’ll add you to our waiting list.
However you define the idea of ‘renewal’, this is a program of music to revitalise and refresh our ears, our hearts and our spirits. From the celebratory to the revelatory; from Will Byrd to Will Todd; from the Abbess to Anne to Arvo, this is music of hope, rejuvenation and promise. And with three of Adelaide’s best choral venues in which to luxuriate, this sounds like just what we all need in 2021!
Program Includes
Songs of Renewal Will Todd
Second Eve Ola Gjeilo
Laudibus in sanctis William Byrd
Part Needle, Part Thread Carl Crossin
Earthsong Frank Ticheli
New Work (Commissioned by ACS) Anne Cawrse
…and music by Joni Mitchell, Hildegard of Bingen, Paul Simon, & Arvo Pärt
Conductor
Carl Crossin OAM
Program 2. Wayfaring Stranger
Friday
25 June SOLD OUT
Art Gallery of SA
North Terrace, Adelaide, 7pm
Saturday
26 June
St Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide, 6.30pm
Sunday
27 June
Elder Hall
University of Adelaide, 2.30pm
WAITING LIST: If your preferred date is sold out, email us and we’ll add you to our waiting list.
To travel across the world by sea, in search of new beginnings, leaving history, culture and tradition behind is a pilgrimage mapped by faith, tenacity and conflict. Reflecting the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at Sea, Wayfaring Stranger charts a physical and spiritual journey. From across the globe and across the centuries we hear the timeless music of Henry Purcell set by other composers, including the first performance of Kerensa Briggs’ Hear my Prayer.
Program Includes
Hear my Prayer (after Purcell) Kerensa Briggs
Hear my Prayer Sven-David Sandström
Hear my Prayer, O Lord Henry Purcell
O Crux Knut Nystedt
Let my love be heard Jake Runestad
Media vita Kerensa Briggs
Jesu dulcis memoria Josh Adams
…and partnering traditional songs and works by Victoria, Purcell and Gombert
Conductor
Christie Anderson
Program 3. Flight
Saturday
20 November
St Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide, 8pm
Sunday
21 November
Elder Hall
University of Adelaide, 2.30pm
History tells us that Leonardo da Vinci invented a flying machine. Legend has it that he may have actually flown it! A flight of fancy? It’s immaterial in this program – this music is for flights of our imagination. And flights can be metaphorical too: Bach knew better than most that a fugue is a flight; Paul Stanhope’s music sings of a flight into exile; John Taverner shows us that musical lines can fly too! Like Finzi’s singing spirits, they rise and soar and float better than any flying contraption yet conceived by science. Even aeronautical engineers know that, when it comes to ‘uplift’, music was there first!
Program Includes
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine Eric Whitacre
Deserts of Exile Paul Stanhope
Contrapunctus 1 (adapted for ACS from The Art of Fugue) J. S. Bach
Agnus Dei (from Mass in G Minor) Ralph Vaughan Williams
My Spirit Sang All Day Gerald Finzi
…and music by Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams & Vytautas Miškinis
Conductor
Carl Crossin OAM
ACS performances will adhere to both our and the venues COVID-safe plans which include asking all attendees to scan the QR code or register their name and contact details on entry, encouraging 1.5m physical distancing at all times and employing checkerboard seating where permitted.
Wheelchair Accessibility
All venues are accessible
Art Gallery SA
Enter via the ramp at the North Terrace entrance
Elder Hall
Enter via the lift on the eastern side of the building
St Peter’s Cathedral
Enter via side door off the carpark on northern side of Cathedral