Facade An Entertainment is a boundlessly imaginative interplay of words and music, tripping joyfully through English life, highlighting the nonsensical, the peculiar and quixotic! William Walton’s music is written for a small chamber ensemble of 6 players to poems by Edith Sitwell spoken in time to the music. These thirty-one musical vignettes that capture the wit, frivolity and…
Sirius Chamber Ensemble is delighted to announce its first concert in May – Beyond Desire: Music from England. The concert will feature guest harpist Georgia Lowe who joins the ensemble to perform the beautiful Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp by Arnold Bax and the Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite for clarinet and harp by…
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble presents its last performance of its 2014 series which will feature the Australian premiere of the recently published original version of Aaron Copland’s Quiet City and a new work written especially for Sirius by Australian composer Paul Smith. The programme: Prokofiev, S: Overture on Hebrew themes for clarinet, string quartet and piano; Smith, P: The…