Just 2 pieces, Snow angel and The snow. It had been cold overnight in Canberra. I was not sure quite what to expect. This was the Canberra Community Chorale directed by Olivia Swift. Olivia does good work. I spoke to her after the concert about the compositions. She said most people like one or the other and they were quite different. I was commenting to her about Sarah Quartel Snow Angel. This one fascinated me. It's modern: it has a string of spoken word passages from Angels 1,2,3, written as paragraphs but quite poetic with rhymes and repetitions, telling stories with discrete religious themes; it has modern piano accompaniment of limited harmonic movements with rhythmic structure, with quite complex voices and harmonies over. And it has just a few rap passages. Rap! That fascinated me and I felt it may have somewhat discombobulated the mature singers. But this was a fascinating modern composition. The other piece was a poem by Caroline Alice Roberts put to music by her husband, Edward Elgar, which seemed fairly obvious English music of the period. So I had a preference and it was Sarah Quartel. This was a run through for a later concert in this Church in a month or so. Snow angel was quite intriguing. Hope to catch this one again.
The Canberra Community Chorale performed at Wesley Church under Olivia Swift (director) with accompaniment by Lucus Allerton (piano) and angels Helen Moore, Maxine Robinson and Martin McGill (spoken word).
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