Choral Singing / Choral Music
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Presents
ChorusOz 2024 - THE ARMED MAN: A Mass for Peace
Sunday 9 June 2024, 5 P.M.
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
(LIVE broadcast from ABC Classic!)
“A hope for mankind.”
It's that time of the year in June when hundreds of passionate singers join the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs choristers for the annual ChorusOz weekend of singing, fun and friendship, finishing with a performance on the world-famous Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with a professional orchestra and soloists.
ChorusOz – Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' annual “big sing” – brings together a community of singers from across Australia and around the world for an inspiring weekend. And this time, ChorusOz returns with a complete performance of The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
Inspired by the tragedy of the Kosovo War, Karl Jenkins combines sacred and secular texts. It’s exhilarating music to perform, with a parade of musical styles, thought-provoking texts and powerful emotions. Equally exhilarating are the choral hymns Finlandia and Jerusalem. And – for the first time the 16-year history of ChorusOz – Sydney Philharmonia Choirs commissioned a new Australian work especially for this event.
Whether you’re in the middle of the choir singing at full voice, or joining in the audience, find harmony singing for peace.
Sunday 9 June at 5pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
This performance will run for 1 hour and 30 minutes. No interval.
PROGRAM
Karl JENKINS The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Jean SIBELIUS Finlandia with choral hymn finale
Hubert PARRY Jerusalem
(orchestral accompaniment by Edward Elgar)
Katie NOONAN & Andrew O’CONNOR An Instrument of Peace† (World premiere)
† Sydney Philharmonia Choirs commission
ARTISTS
Brett Weymark conductor
AVÉ (Australian Vocal Ensemble)
Katie Noonan soprano
Fiona Campbell mezzo-soprano
Louis Hurley tenor
Andrew O’Connor baritone
ChorusOz 2024
Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra
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ChorusOz for singers takes place on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.Visit sydneyphilharmonia.com.au to sign up as a participant - no prior singing experience required.
Related Links:
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - Concert for Peace. Youtube, uploaded by CMajorEntertainment. Accessed June 1, 2022
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - full concert. Youtube, uploaded by Oscar Fredriks Vocalis. Accessed June 1, 2022.
The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace - Sir Karl Jenkins. Youtube. uploaded by Jerusalem Oratorio Choir. Accessed June 1, 2022.
The Armed Man: Seeking Peace for 25 Years and Counting. Composer Sir Karl Jenkins speaks to Limelight about his most popular
work and its evolving meaning over more than 3000 performances. Limelight. 5 June, 2024. Accessed same day. Quoted from Limelight:
"Sir Karl Jenkins' pride in the work is tempered by some mixed feelings.He says: “The original brief for the piece was to write something that was hopeful for peace,” he says. “That was back in 1998 and look where we are now. Nothing has changed. Peace is as far away as it ever was.”"
"For the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs concert, conductor Brett Weymark has paired Jenkins’ The Armed Man with two other choral hymns that chime with similar hopes for peace: Hubert Parry’s Jerusalem, Jean Sibelius's Finlandia and a newly commissioned work by Katie Noonan and Andrew O’Connor, An Instrument of Peace, which will premiere at ChorusOz this weekend. “In planning this year’s program,” says Weymark, “I felt it timely to bring together music from different countries and different times to explore diverse voices on the themes of peace and hope and consider the questions generations of poets and composers have been trying to answer.”"
Photo Credit:
ChorusOz The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
1. ChorusOz | The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Accessed June 1, 2024. (Available at the time of access.)
2. ChorusOz Online Program.
3. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs 2024 Season Catalogue. Voice. Energy. JOY.
4. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs ChorusOz 2024, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. The Aussie Theatre Com. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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