New Machine: Junior Performing Choir Regional Tour
Orange Uniting Church
5.00pm, Saturday 14 September
with Orange Regional Conservatorium Choirs
Ticket link: https://events.humanitix.com/new-machine-orange
Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes including interval
St George’s Anglican Church Parkes
4.00pm, Sunday 15 September
Free entry, no bookings required
Duration: 60 minutes
“He dressed himself in cycling clothes, resplendent to be seen
He hurried off to town and bought a shiny new machine” — Banjo Paterson
The SCC Junior Performing Choir is heading to Orange and Parkes for some concerts titled “New Machine” in September. In Orange, the choir are joined by singers from the Orange Regional Conservatorium.
Songs herald emerging technology from over the centuries. The Cutty Sark was known as the fastest sailing ship of its time, built in Scotland in 1869, and Stephen Leek’s setting tells of travels in strange harbours. Luke Byrne’s Travelling Companion takes its inspiration from satellite replicas of the Cold War era, displayed in the furthest corner of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. And the Sydney Children’s Choir perform a choral setting of Mulga Bill’s Bicycle, based on the poem by Banjo Paterson, about the man who turns away his “good old horse” in favour of a shiny new machine at the forefront technological advancement: the bicycle.
Sydney Children’s Choir – Junior Performing Choir
Lachlan Massey, conductor
Catherine McKay, piano
Orange Regional Conservatorium Choirs – Little Singers, Crescendo, Caesura
Samantha Bartholomeusz, conductor
Malachi Krkac, piano
