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  • 2024
  • The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  • Classical Music

mvachoirofkingscollege24 The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Musica Viva Australia Classical Music Musica Viva Australia The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

25 Jul 2024, 7pm
Concert Hall
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Overview

Every year on Christmas Eve, millions of listeners around the world tune in to hear The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge celebrate the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in a glorious display of the British choral tradition. Now this unique and precious sound, the product of generations of voices and centuries of music, returns to Australia featuring some of their best-loved repertoire.

Alongside traditional hymns and soaring anthems, the Choir will perform a touchstone of the choral repertoire: Maurice Duruflé’s magnificent Requiem, a radiant meditation on life and death for choir and organ.

It’s not all top hats and heavenly voices: just as boys grow up and voices change, the Choir’s work evolves across the generations. Which is why Daniel Hyde, Director since 2019, asked us what the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge might bring to Australia, and what they might learn from us.

Integral to their performance is a new work commissioned by Australian composer Damian Barbeler, working with a text by Judith Nangala Crispin (a descendent of the Bpangerang people), which grapples with threads of history to come up with something new and compelling.

Program

Gabrieli O magnum mysterium 
Bull Almighty God, which by the leading of a star 
Tallis Videte miraculum 
Weir Vertue 
Duruflé Requiem 
Damian Barbeler (music) & Judith Nangala Crispin (poem) Charlotte (2023)

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Education Notes

Suitability: Years 7 to 12
Presented by Musica Viva Australia
  • It’s got to be more than top hats and concert halls,’ Dan Hyde, the Choir’s director, said to me when we were first planning the tour. ‘What’s the social footprint – on both choir and Australian audiences – to be?
    Paul Kildea
  • "Where did you go girl, with your made-up history, your ever whiter babies?” I say to her – Charlotte, Grandmother of my Grandfather, I am Judith, and these are my scars.
    Judith Nangala Crispin in the Anthropological Record
  • ★★★★★
    Glorious tradition not afraid to experiment
    The Age Following Hamer Hall performance
  • It’s got to be more than top hats and concert halls,’ Dan Hyde, the Choir’s director, said to me when we were first planning the tour. ‘What’s the social footprint – on both choir and Australian audiences – to be?
    Paul Kildea
  • "Where did you go girl, with your made-up history, your ever whiter babies?” I say to her – Charlotte, Grandmother of my Grandfather, I am Judith, and these are my scars.
    Judith Nangala Crispin in the Anthropological Record
  • ★★★★★
    Glorious tradition not afraid to experiment
    The Age Following Hamer Hall performance
  • It’s got to be more than top hats and concert halls,’ Dan Hyde, the Choir’s director, said to me when we were first planning the tour. ‘What’s the social footprint – on both choir and Australian audiences – to be?
    Paul Kildea

Artists

  • Director of Music Daniel Hyde
  • Choir The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge

Accessibility

For wheelchair users, Companion Card holders or those requiring assistance, dedicated seating options are available, and bookings can be made through our Call Centre by giving us a call on 136 246. You can also find information on access and accessibility at QPAC here.

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