City Scapes - Elizabeth Murdoch Hall - Wednesday 18 May - 6pm
Wander through the sounds of city streets through the ages – as composed by Orlando Gibbons and Luciano Berio.
The program also includes Aaron Copland’s gritty Music for a Great City and two works inspired by Atlanta, Georgia: Jennifer Higdon’s City Scape, and Michael Kurth’s Everything Lasts Forever.
Song Company perform with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
This concert is part of Metropolis New Music Festival 2016.
Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Recital Centre
GO INTO THE CITY - THE SALON - Thursday 19 May - 6pm
A one-hour recital program building on The Cries of Melbourne – a newly-created collaborative work by local composers made up of street recordings from Melbourne and composed vocal cries.
Go into the City features poly-textual motets from medieval Europe juxtaposed with contemporary commentary, including political caricature from Tim Hansen’s satirical song cycle Howls from the House.
The history of composed “cries” stretches back to Clément Janequin’s Cris de Paris in the first half of the 16th century, and since then, Orlando Gibbons’ depiction of the street cries of London; in the 1970s Luciano Berio continued the tradition with his own London cries, originally written for the King’s Singers and reworked for the Swingle Singers. In this hour-long sequence (following their concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), The Song Company dig down even earlier – to a Parisian strawberry-seller in the 13th-century Montpellier Codex – and layer the brand new city textures of The Cries of Melbourne with fragments of passion, parody, riot and ruin from Paris, Tournai, Canberra, and London.
This concert is part of Metropolis New Music Festival 2016.
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and The Song Company