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Macquarie Singers is an unauditioned community choir from Epping, NSW, Australia. This is our first virtual choir, created October-December 2020 on Dharug, Eora and Kuring-gai Land. After performing Ola Gjeilo's 'The Ground' in our final concert in 2019, ...  moreMacquarie Singers is an unauditioned community choir from Epping, NSW, Australia. This is our first virtual choir, created October-December 2020 on Dharug, Eora and Kuring-gai Land. After performing Ola Gjeilo's 'The Ground' in our final concert in 2019, we were preparing it again for our 'Indomitable Spirit' concert in May 2020. Then, Covid-19 arrived. Like many choirs, we kept going online, or outdoors when permitted. This film is a record of our year, made to remind ourselves that joy and connection are still available to us, despite distance and change. Macquarie Singers & Macquarie Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Sarah Penicka-Smith Piano: Josephine Allan Violin 1: Tess Duflou Violin 2: Sagar Nagaraj Viola: Kathryn Ramsay Cello: Marc Valpiani Video engineer: Connor Malanos Audio engineer: Joshua Winestock Supported with a community grant from Epping Community Bank (Bendigo Bank).  less

Calling all Gents, Blokes, Geezers, Chaps, Wideboys, Rakes, Dudes, Scoundrels, Lads.... ...Calling all MEN. No Bow Ties. No Blazers. No Auditions. Just men and song. The mighty Male Voice classics from the valleys of the Land of the Dragon. Insan...  moreCalling all Gents, Blokes, Geezers, Chaps, Wideboys, Rakes, Dudes, Scoundrels, Lads.... ...Calling all MEN. No Bow Ties. No Blazers. No Auditions. Just men and song. The mighty Male Voice classics from the valleys of the Land of the Dragon. Insane Georgian/Bulgarian repertoire to make the very stones weep Vintage cheese from the Barbershop tradition (tempered with a small pinch of salt) Also anthems concerning the wonders of facial hair, garden sheds, reversing round corners, etc.... Not so much a new idea as a distillation of every great 'man-singing' concept' that has ever graced this earth. Rolled into one. In Bristol. By the people who created 'Gurt Lush Choir'. It will be BIG & fun. Virile & beautiful. Devilishly charming... ...You know you want to....  less

The second piece in Samuel Barber's Reincarnations, Op. 16 Anthony O’Daly was a member of the Whiteboys, a group that resisted encroachments on peasants’ rights to their Land with a mixture of rent strikes and violence. In 1820, Daly was wrongfully acc...  moreThe second piece in Samuel Barber's Reincarnations, Op. 16 Anthony O’Daly was a member of the Whiteboys, a group that resisted encroachments on peasants’ rights to their Land with a mixture of rent strikes and violence. In 1820, Daly was wrongfully accused of shooting at a local Landowner and condemned to hang. Although the local population acclaimed him as a hero and attempted to help him escape the gallows, he went quietly to his death. "Anthony! Since your limbs were laid out, the stars do not shine! The fish leap, not out in the waves! On our meadows, the dew does not fall in the morn, for O’Daly is dead!" Barber’s song feels like a huge public outpouring of grief. It begins with the basses repeating Anthony’s name on a drone whilst the upper voices sing a keening melody, and the piece builds to hysteria as the sopranos and altos take over the chanted name. There are also suggestions that Raftery’s poem is not a lament but a traditional poet’s curse, calling down retribution in response to Raftery’s...    less

(Only in German language) Der „SonntagsChor RheinLand-Pfalz“ entstand im November 2010, als „SWR SonntagsChor“, aus einer Landesweiten Chorinitiative vom Südwestrundfunk RheinLand-Pfalz und den Landes-Chorverbänden RheinLand-Pfalz und Pfalz. Die aktuel...  more(Only in German language) Der „SonntagsChor RheinLand-Pfalz“ entstand im November 2010, als „SWR SonntagsChor“, aus einer Landesweiten Chorinitiative vom Südwestrundfunk RheinLand-Pfalz und den Landes-Chorverbänden RheinLand-Pfalz und Pfalz. Die aktuell mehr als 50 chorerfahrenen Amateursängerinnen und -sänger vom „SonntagsChor RheinLand-Pfalz“ wurden seinerzeit aus über 600 Bewerbern, in mehreren Durchläufen, nach festgelegten Kriterien ausgewählt. Musikalisch begleitete der „SonntagsChor RheinLand-Pfalz“ bereits Johannes Kalpers bei der TV-Sendung „SWR SonntagsTour“ sowie - bis heute - zahlreiche weitere Rundfunk- und TV-Produktionen des SWR, u.a. zusammen mit Thomas Anders. Eigene Konzerte und Projekte stehen ebenso auf dem Programm des bisher EINZIGEN wirklich LandESWEITEN Auswahlchores. Auch im sozialen Bereich zeigt der „SonntagsChor RheinLand-Pfalz“ sein Engagement: Ob als musikalischer Partner der SWR-Aktion „Herzenssache“ oder der „Kinderglück“-Aktion von Lotto RheinLand-Pfalz. Die Sängerin...    less

lyrics: Josip Pupačić A part of the choir's winning performance at the 58th Croatian Youth Music Festival held in May 2015 in Varaždin. www.facebook.com/m.marulic.choir m.marulic_choir@yahoo.com video recording: Bernard Kahle, Goran Sučić audio...  morelyrics: Josip Pupačić A part of the choir's winning performance at the 58th Croatian Youth Music Festival held in May 2015 in Varaždin. www.facebook.com/m.marulic.choir m.marulic_choir@yahoo.com video recording: Bernard Kahle, Goran Sučić audio recording and production: Bernard Kahle www.facebook.com/BKrecordings b.kahle@yahoo.com  

Rosh Tov and Jeanne Rabin's Ensemble performing "Od Lo Tamu Kol Plaayich" (Your Wonders Never Cease) - love song to the Land of Israel. Words - Yoram Teharlev Music - Rami Kleinstein Arrangement - Alexander Sasha Kantsberg & Jeanne Rabin www/jeann...  moreRosh Tov and Jeanne Rabin's Ensemble performing "Od Lo Tamu Kol Plaayich" (Your Wonders Never Cease) - love song to the Land of Israel. Words - Yoram Teharlev Music - Rami Kleinstein Arrangement - Alexander Sasha Kantsberg & Jeanne Rabin www/jeannerabin.com מופע משותף של שתיים ממקהלותיה של ג'יני רבין,"האנסמבל בראש טוב" שהתקיים במשכן למוסיקה, רעננה כאן מבצעים את שירם הנפלא של יורם טהרלב ורמי קחליינשטיין בעיבוד של סשה קנצברג עם ג'יני רבין - עוד לא תמו כל פלאייך