ROCS’ Occasional Choral Composition Competition Redux

Oct 08, 2010 12:06

Or, Not-So-Young Melbourne Composers III (6 years on)

The previous installments of this concert undertaking were covered here, at length (2007) and in brief here (2004, before and afterBefore too long, ROCS will rack up its fiftieth world première of a new choral composition; it’s getting hard to keep track of every piece they’ve performed. A ( Read more... )

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how many? tigerdenbodu October 8 2010, 07:36:50 UTC
Isn't it 9 composers (since we're potentially performing Icicles)?
ROCS is enjoying the repertoire, despite the difficulty of some pieces. Some have been sung in the stairwell on the way to pub after rehearsal :-)

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Re: how many? tigerdenbodu October 8 2010, 07:43:57 UTC
Reminds me: we haven't got semester 1's new premieres up on the aicsapedia page:
La Mission (2010), Didi et Dada (2004) and all the songs from the 2010 edition of Blue Sky, all but 3 of which were new in 2010.

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Re: how many? phi1ip October 8 2010, 10:48:46 UTC
You’re quite right, I mustn’t have counted Icicles. If we do that, we have nine. The Fellowship of the…

Nah.

I’m going to update the AICSApedia page once the judging’s done and the concert order confirmed, and that will include the Gnomeville Songs and mention of the revised Blue Sky.

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Re: how many? phi1ip October 21 2010, 12:04:39 UTC
Edited.

And we have another composer, which gets us to double figures.

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