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Garden of Earthly Delights
A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) the Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is ever-enigmatic. Whether it is interpreted as a surreal feast for the senses or as a stark warning about the moral decay during a time of rapid change, this art exudes dread and seduction in equal measure.
Trust Luminescence Chamber Singers to turn this surreal feast of the senses into an aural tapestry as pleasurable and perilous as Bosch’s vision. Drawn from the vaults of Renaissance raunch, Medieval monasterian excess and daring modern transgressions, Garden of Earthly Delights offers a vocal cornucopia of surprise and surreptitiously cheeky delight, probing the pleasures and perils of excess.
Program to include music by Josquin, Banchieri, Gallus and new works by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk.
70 minutes no interval, conducted by Roland Peelman AM
Red Dirt Hymns
A hymnal to the country under our feet.
A living songbook more than four years in the making, Andrew Ford’s hymnal brings together the words of sixteen contemporary Australian writers – poets, essayists, and folksingers. Born in a time of fire and darkness, grief, and loss, and then fragile, tender hope, Red Dirt Hymns are songs of awe and praise, dedicated not to a god, but to the land.
Red Dirt Hymns is performed by the ever-daring voices of Luminescence Chamber Singers alongside singers from Moss Vale High School Choirs, and two rising stars: Hilary Geddes (electric guitar), 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow and lead guitarist of Triple J favourites The Buoys, and category-defying cellist Freya Schack-Arnott. Songs that span art music, folk song, country ballad, and Aussie rock, unfold to the evocative imagery of Sammy Hawker, whose art is created within the fabric of country itself: saltwater, limestone and eucalypt.
From Ellen van Neerven’s dark clouds to John Kinsella’s abundant gardens, Red Dirt Hymns does what a hymnal is meant to do: it draws us closer – to each other, and to the light and shade of our wide brown land.
Of The Body
“A triumph of sheer excellence, […] a concert of rare depth”
[Canberra CityNews 2023]
“lively, intelligent, and alternately great fun and serious. And always beautifully performed.”
[Classikon, 2023]
From Andreas Vesalius’ groundbreaking De Humani Corporis Fabrica to the drawings of Da Vinci and Dürer, the 16th century heralded a new fascination with the human figure. Human dissection transformed our understanding of anatomy, and the body became the subject of scientific and artistic fixation.
In the spirit of Buxtehude’s much-loved Membra Jesu Nostri, each movement of Dan Walker’s new song cycle Of The Body is devoted to an anatomical part: the eyes, the hands, the mouth, the feet, the blood, and finally, the heart.
In a concert that traverses sex, sensuality, the senses, and more, Luminescence Chamber Singers explore our relationship to our corporeal form; our flesh and blood.
Presented by Four Winds
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
PROGRAMME
LYNOTE Dominique Phinot (1548)
Text: Clément Marot
MON COEUR, MON CORPS Adriaen Willaert (1545)
SOSPIRI MIEI D'AHIMÈ Adriaen Willaert (1545)
OF THE BODY I: INTROITUS Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Francesco Petrarca
DER NASENTANZ Orlande de Lassus (1576)
OF THE BODY II: SARA SARA Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Matsuo Bashō
YOUR SHINING EYES Michael East (1618)
OF THE BODY III: CALIGAVERUNT OCULI MEI Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Sarah Teasdale
IN MANUS TUAS DOMINE Thomas Tallis (1575)
Text: Psalm 31:6
OF THE BODY IV: YOUR FEET Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Pablo Neruda
SKINNY LOVE Justin Vernon arr. Roland Peelman (2007)
OF THE BODY V: REBEL BLOOD Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Andrea Aguilar Ferro
THE BODY BREAKS Devendra Banhart arr. Roland Peelman (2004)
OF THE BODY VI: ODE TO A MOUTH Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Alexander Cook
CON LA SUA MAN Luca Marenzio (1591)
PINK EDGES IV Gerard Brophy (2002)
Text: Pietro Aretino
OF THE BODY VII: HOW TO HOLD A HEART Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Malia Wollan/Dr Kathy Magliato
Of The Body
“A triumph of sheer excellence, […] a concert of rare depth”
[Canberra CityNews 2023]
“lively, intelligent, and alternately great fun and serious. And always beautifully performed.”
[Classikon, 2023]
From Andreas Vesalius’ groundbreaking De Humani Corporis Fabrica to the drawings of Da Vinci and Dürer, the 16th century heralded a new fascination with the human figure. Human dissection transformed our understanding of anatomy, and the body became the subject of scientific and artistic fixation.
In the spirit of Buxtehude’s much-loved Membra Jesu Nostri, each movement of Dan Walker’s new song cycle Of The Body is devoted to an anatomical part: the eyes, the hands, the mouth, the feet, the blood, and finally, the heart.
In a concert that traverses sex, sensuality, the senses, and more, Luminescence Chamber Singers explore our relationship to our corporeal form; our flesh and blood.
Presented by Arts Bundanoon
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
PROGRAMME
LYNOTE Dominique Phinot (1548)
Text: Clément Marot
MON COEUR, MON CORPS Adriaen Willaert (1545)
SOSPIRI MIEI D'AHIMÈ Adriaen Willaert (1545)
OF THE BODY I: INTROITUS Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Francesco Petrarca
DER NASENTANZ Orlande de Lassus (1576)
OF THE BODY II: SARA SARA Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Matsuo Bashō
YOUR SHINING EYES Michael East (1618)
OF THE BODY III: CALIGAVERUNT OCULI MEI Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Sarah Teasdale
IN MANUS TUAS DOMINE Thomas Tallis (1575)
Text: Psalm 31:6
OF THE BODY IV: YOUR FEET Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Pablo Neruda
SKINNY LOVE Justin Vernon arr. Roland Peelman (2007)
OF THE BODY V: REBEL BLOOD Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Andrea Aguilar Ferro
THE BODY BREAKS Devendra Banhart arr. Roland Peelman (2004)
OF THE BODY VI: ODE TO A MOUTH Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Alexander Cook
CON LA SUA MAN Luca Marenzio (1591)
PINK EDGES IV Gerard Brophy (2002)
Text: Pietro Aretino
OF THE BODY VII: HOW TO HOLD A HEART Dan Walker (2023)
Text: Malia Wollan/Dr Kathy Magliato