Music and Words - The Art of Song
A vocal concert with Fleur Millar, Soprano, Richard Orchard, Baritone, and Thompson Quan Wing, Tenor and guest artists. With Colin Forbes, piano and Sam Row, Piano
Sunday August 11 at 3.00 p.m.
Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest
This concert will explore the work of Schubert and his great muse, the poet Goethe, by celebrating the union between words and music - the art song. Goethe’s poems were a great inspiration for art song of the 19th century and in this concert, they provide a springboard for singing beautiful art song throughout the ages. This concert will include professional, semi-professional and advanced students of classical voice, singing mainly art song repertoire, accompanied on piano by Colin Forbes and Sam Row. Music includes Fleur Millar singing Schubert and Goethe’s song, ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade’. Richard Orchard and Colin Forbes will interpret Beethoven’s ‘An die Ferne Geliebte’, with poetry by Wilhelm Muller, illuminating how Schubert, a contemporary of Beethoven, was influenced by the great artist and made the style his own. There will also be some early Italian bel canto song of Bellini – in which words and music flow together, sung by Thompson Quan Wing, the Italian bel canto being an inspiration for the German artists.
Future MCH Music concerts may include students from CIT and The Canberra School of Music; a concert of 18th Century vocal music by Rameau including excerpts of the work ‘Les Indes Galant’; a concert show-casing Canberra Chamber Music and finishing the year with a concert of Canberra’s ‘Rising Stars.’
Fleur Millar holds a BMUS Music Perf in Voice, VCA Melbourne University and is Director of Music at MCHI, her work includes, Canberra School of Music, CIT, The Canberra Street Theatre. A music graduate of Sydney Con, Colin Forbes work includes with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Essen Hochschule Germany. Sam Row is a Graduate of the Queensland Con, and work includes for National Opera and Art Song Canberra. Richard Orchard was Cantor at St Saviour’s Cathedral, Goulburn and currently studying for LMus in voice with Colin Forbes and Thompson Quan Wing returns to singing having sung with companies including Canberra City Opera and lessons with David Parker.
There will be a discussion after the concert followed by refreshments.
MCH members $15; concession (Gov’t support and full-time students) $15; Non-members $20