Sydney Philharmonia Cinematic Concert

Celebrating SPC's 100 Years

In celebration of its centenary this year 2020, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will sing Elena Kats Chernin's new work HUMAN WAVES... filled with heart wrenching stories of survival.

Due to COVID-19, this year there won't be physical concert - no Sydney Opera House nor Sydney Town Hall - rather, it's virtual voices of Sydney Philharmonia choristers. 


HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY Sydney Philharmonia!!!


Cinematic Birthday Concert, Time & Place 
Premiering on Wednesday 9 September, 7:30pm. 

TIME AND PLACE | CELEBRATING 100 YEARS

On September 9th 2020, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs turns 100.

To celebrate this remarkable achievement in the cultural life of Australia, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will present a cinematic concert featuring newly commissioned works by two of Australia’s most lauded female composers.

Time and Place examines what it means to be part of Australian society through the lens of both indigenous cultures and those many cultures that have come to call this land home.

Tarimi Nulay – long time living here is a choral Acknowledgement of Country written by Deborah Cheetham with text by Matthew Doyle. It is a work that brings Australians into the moment and lifts the curtain on Elena Kats Chernin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska’s world premiere, Human Waves. True stories of struggle and success have been woven into the nine movements that will touch hearts, make you laugh and possibly even bring a tear to the eye.

Hundreds of choristers have recorded themselves in isolation and this will be mixed with live footage of the composer and librettist at the piano to create a unique digital event that celebrates the best of our unusual times.

It is so much more than a concert.

It is an event not to be missed.



Deborah CHEETHAM AO Tarimi nulay – Long-time living here (extract)
Elena KATS-CHERNIN AO Human Waves (World premiere)

ARTISTS:
Brett Weymark conductor
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

PRODUCTION:
Ten Alphas



Resources:
(All resources available at the time of  access.)

100 Minutes of New Australian Music. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Accessed 27 Aug 2020

A Century in Review. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Accessed 27 Aug 2020

Choir Unites in Isolation to Celebrate 100 Years. Performing Arts Hub. Accessed 9 September 2020

Time and Place : Celebrating Sydney Philharmonia's 100 Years. www.stagewhispers.com. Accessed 27 August 2020.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs + TEN ALPHAS Announce Digital World Premiere TIME AND PLACE. Broadway World Classical Music. Accessed 4 September 2020. 

(c) August 27, 2020. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved. 

Thomas Tallis

Composers Datebook 

Composer of the English Renaissance

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral musi and with William Byrd, considered the leading composer of the English Renaissance.  Tallis is one of England's greatest composers, and he is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship.

No contemporaneous portrait of Tallis survives; the one painted by Gerard Vandergucht dates from 150 years after Tallis died, and there is no reason to suppose that it is a fair likeness. In a rare existing copy of his blackletter signature, he spelled his name "Tallys".

His works include Tallis's Canon ('Glory to thee my God this night'), the antiphonal Spem in alium non habui (English: "I have never put my hope in any other...") for 40-part Renaissance motet, composed in c. 1556/1570 for  eight choirs of five voices each, and a collection of 34 motets, Canioness sacarae, of which 16 are Tallis and 18 by Byrd. Tallis was one of the earliest composers to write for the Anglican liturgy.  


Early Life

Little is known about Thomas Tallis's early life. He was born in the early 16th century toward the end of Henry VII's reign. The name "Tallis" is derived from the French word taillis, which means a "thicket." There are suggestions that he was a child of the chapel (boy chorister) of the Chapel Royal, the same singing establishment which he joined as an adult.
 
Tallis's first known musical appointment was in 1532 as organist of Dover Priory (now Dover College), a Benedictine priory in Kent. His career took him to London, then to Waltham Abbey in the autumn of 1538, a large Augustinian monastery in Essex which was dissolved in 1540. He was paid off and acquired a book about music that contained a treatise by Leonel Power which prohibits consecutive unisons, fifths, and octaves.



 

 ^{Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium, with Tallis Scholars Ensemble.}