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Sydney Chamber Choir announces this week’s digital release, Ah! Sun-flower<\/em> from Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year, <\/em>a 7-part song cycle written for double choir and piano.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s a return to the 21st century with this excerpt which is the 5th movement of the song cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jonathan Dove’s music is about communicating, creating wonder and enriching lives, qualities that are abundant in this choral song cycle. It\u2019s an ambiguous title \u2013 is this a celebration of the seasons, \u00e0 la Vivaldi, or a lament for another year gone? \u2013 and that ambiguity contributes to the music\u2019s extraordinary intensity and beauty.<\/p>\n

Ah! Sun-flower,<\/em> expresses the yearning of a weary soul from the restful sleep of death. The words of William Blake take us inside the pain of the sunflower, condemned to follow the sun\u2019s beauty as it rises and sets each day, but never permitted to reach the truer, lasting beauty of eternity. Dove\u2019s music here conveys both movement and stillness. The piano gives us two chords which rock gently back and forth throughout the entire movement while the rhythm continues to move us forwards. In the voices, Dove uses canonic writing \u2013 the same tune sung by all eight parts, overlapping as each begins one after the other \u2013 to convey the endless round of the sunflower\u2019s daily journey.<\/p>\n

Adapted from annotations by Natalie Shea, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-29517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nSydney Chamber Choir's Latest Digital release - Sounds Like Sydney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29517\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sydney Chamber Choir's Latest Digital release - Sounds Like Sydney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=29517\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sounds Like Sydney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-14T03:30:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture-4-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"754\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"403\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0a3852eddeb5f8e3971a7ee828b5176e\"},\"headline\":\"Sydney Chamber Choir’s Latest Digital release\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-14T03:30:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/Capture-4-1.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundslikesydney.com.au\\\/?p=29517\",\"name\":\"Sydney Chamber Choir's Latest Digital release - 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