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    • The Oriana Chorale: Colours of Earth

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    Music of resilience and transformation - colourful, stunning contemporary music. The Oriana Chorale presents exciting voices in the contemporary choral scene, including New York composer Caroline Shaw's gorgeous Ochre. By turns mysterious, expressive and emotional, Ochre reflects on our relationship with the Earth and the wondrous processes that occur within…
    • Concord of Sweet Sounds

    Salut! Baroque: Concord of Sweet Sounds

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus. / Let no such man be trusted.…
    • Invitation to the Dance

    Salut! Baroque: Invitation to the Dance

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    “Music and dance are all you need.” Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Dance and diplomacy were inseparable at Louis XIV’s opulent palace in Versailles. Every aspect of the palace was designed to reinforce the King’s absolute authority, and Louis protected his political power through pageantry. In appointing the Italian-born musician,…
    • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Salut! Baroque: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    “If the Bohemians had the advantages enjoyed by the Italians they would surpass them. They are perhaps the most musical race in all Europe”. Charles Burney (1773) The celebrations for the crowning of Charles VI as King of Bohemia in Prague in 1723 included an opera performance by 200 musicians…
    • Charms in Musick

    Salut! Baroque: Charms in Musick

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    “If there are Charms in Musick in general, all the reasonable World agrees, that the Vocal has the Pre-eminence, both from Nature and Art above the Instrumental.” JE Galliard (1743) Ancient Greek theatre inspired a gathering of musicians, poets and intellectuals in Florence in the late 16th century to create…