Luminescence Chamber Singers: A Sunburnt Christmas
14 December @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEDT

The Luminescence Chamber Singers have two festive programs this December. The first, Christmas Classics, ranges from medieval carols, through Mouton, Sweelinck, Bach and Britten, to Yuletide favourites like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
The second, A Sunburnt Christmas, offers more of a Down Under perspective on seasonal music. Bringing together Luminescence Children’s Choir, pianist-composer Sally Whitwell, soprano Rachel Mink and the Ellery String Quartet, this very nearly-all-Aussie program celebrates summertime, family, the promise of new life, beach days and long summer nights. The music includes works by Ross Edwards, Andrew Ford and Elena Kats-Chernin among others.
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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 of voices 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.
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