Sydney University Musical Society Presents Carolfest, its 56th Carolfest concert. Carolfest is SUMS’ annual festival of Christmas carols and lessons, performed in Sydney University’s magnificent Great Hall. This year’s program will feature works from a diverse range of composers, from Rachmaninoff to Rutter, Bach to Britten. Classics and new endeavours combine in a night of beautiful choral music….
The Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS) presents its first concert of 2014, featuring Vivaldi’s Magnificat RV 610 and Schubert’s Mass no 2 in G D 167 accompanied by a string orchestra and organ. Vivaldi’s Magnificat, a nine-movement mass for four-part chorus, strings and continuo is filled with rich contrasts of tonality, tempo, meter and rhythmic figures, homophonic…
Join Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS) for their 55th Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, Carolfest, in the beautiful sandstone Great Hall of Sydney University, with music from its magnificent organ. This year, SUMS will be presenting two very different Carolfest concerts! The first will be a family-friendly affair, to which kids of all ages (including grown up kids!) are heartily invited….