Category: Mass Choir Events
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Sydney Sings® – Calling all singers!
November 12th 2023 – Sydney Sings® “The Creation” Sydney University Graduate Choir will once again present a Sydney Sings® event this year at the Sydney Town Hall on Sunday 12th November, Joseph Haydn’s wonderfully uplifting The Creation. Please hold this date, if you are interested in joining us for this great work. We will sing under the…
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Sydney Sings® “Imagine…”
Sydney University Graduate Choir is pleased to announce that its November Town Hall Sydney Sings® concert is back in 2022. This concert will feature the world premiere of The Redfern Oratorio composed and conducted by Christopher Bowen OAM. Inspired by Paul Keating’s historic 1992 Redfern Speech, The Redfern Oratorio imagines a shared future with Indigenous Australians and a longing…
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Sydney Sings® – Calling all singers!
November 13th 2022 – Sydney Sings® “Imagine…” Sydney University Graduate Choir will once again present a Sydney Sings® event this year at the Sydney Town Hall on Sunday 13th November. We are inviting singers far and wide to join us in performing the world premier of The Redfern Oratorio composed by Christopher Bowen with the libretto by…
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Elijah and Dvořák
We hope you and your loved ones are well following the Lockdown period. Perhaps you are now beginning to see some family members and friends, all the while retaining the physical distancing and hand-washing recommended. But still we cannot go to the theatre or the concert hall. During this period the choir has not been able to…
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Sydney Sings…™ Brahms A German Requiem
On Sunday, 10 November, at 3.00 pm, in the Sydney Town Hall, the Sydney University Graduate Choir, conducted by its Music Director, Christopher Bowen OAM, will present, as its Sydney Sings…™ concert for 2019, music of Johannes Brahms, featuring his wonderful Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), and also including an orchestral work of the…
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Guest Choristers for Sydney Sings™ Brahms ‘A German Requiem’
On November 10th Sydney University Graduate Choir and Orchestra will be performing Brahms ‘A German Requiem’ in the magnificent setting of Sydney Town Hall. This concert is part of the choir’s Sydney Sings™ concert series, and will include a large guest choir. Over 100 guest choristers have already signed up for this event but the…
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Sing On Report – An Australian War Requiem
In his insightful analysis of the coup d’etat that brought Louis Napoleon to power in France in 1848, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx famously commented: “Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy,…
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Sydney Sings is back in 2018!
The Sydney Sings … concert series returns to the Sydney Town Hall on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2018, with a performance of An Australian War Requiem. This original work, composed by contemporary Australian composer Christopher Bowen OAM, was first performed in August 2014 by the Sydney University Graduate Choir at the Sydney Town Hall to…
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SYDNEY SINGS MESSIAH 2016
On 13 November, the Choir organised its seventh Sydney Sings concert, a massed choir performance of Handel’s Messiah in the Sydney Town Hall, under the title, ‘Sydney Sings Messiah’ with support from the City of Sydney This was the fourth time we had presented Handel’s popular masterpiece in this format, the others being in December…
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Handel’s Messiah – An Interview with Christopher Bowen
It’s easy to imagine performing Handel’s Messiah as a routine venture. After all, nearly all of the 450 choristers will have sung it before, most of them many times. The orchestral players are professional musicians with impeccable credentials – SSO, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra – and Messiah is a standard part of the soloists’…
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