The Song Company with guest artist Claire Edwardes (vibraphone/water percussion)
Two halves, two very unique and contrasting performances that fuse contemporary and classical music influences, prepare to drift away.
Monet’s paintings of waterlilies are as iconic as Debussy’s delicately traced musical miniatures. In Sunken Dreams we delve into the heart of European impressionism using six voices and the liquid sounds of the vibraphone played by Claire Edwardes.
Genuine water percussion, including the rare waterphone and submerged gongs, form the context for a classic work by New Zealander Jack Body. His beautifully balanced sequence of lullabies and dreams breathes the wind of the Pacific and was specially conceived for the Song Company.
Program
Claude Debussy (1862 — 1918) Selection of Preludes and Songs including Claire de Lune, Golliwogs Cakewalk, La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) and others.
Peter Sculthorpe (b.1929) Maranoa Lullaby
Jack Body (b.1944) Lullabies, Dreams and a Nightmare