Latest Choral Festival Updates
Composition for the Cave
SingDownunder Downunder 2013 Compositions for the Cave The SingDownunder Choral Festival and Tour is seeking new works by students of secondary school age suitable for singing in the resonant acoustic of Waitomo Caves. The intention is to encourage the composition of choral music, the performance of new choral works by young composers, and to feature works that can be performed in the acoustic of Waitomo... [Read more]
10 day Itinerary for 2012 Singdownunder Festival Visit
Day 1 Monday June 25th Afternoon arrival from South Australia Day 2 Tuesday Touring “volcanic’ Auckland Singing with Auckland girls school Visit Auckland’s Skytower Day 3 Wednesday After a breakfast in the hotel transfer to Aorere College for Maori Choral Workshop. Program includes Maori welcome, Powhiri with speech and song from hosts and guests learning a Maori choreographed... [Read more]
“In the Jungle”, “Shosholoza”, from the Front Row Choir
The Front Row Choir (TTBB) seemed to have developed this track by putting together two songs of South African origin. “In the Jungle” started its life as “Mbube” first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda and his group the Evening Birds. [Read more] Read More →
Christchurch Earthquake commemorative ceremony
New Zealand went silent for two minutes at 12.51pm local time, a week since the devastating earthquake. People gathered in solemn ceremony to mourn the tragedy. In central Christchurch, now our “ground zero”, Maori mourners sang “Whakaaria Mai”, our English and Maori version of the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art” . [Read more] Read More →
SingDownunder and the Christchurch Earthquake
At 1pm (NZT) on Tuesday February 22nd Christchurch city centre was partially destroyed by a shallow earthquake almost directly underneath it. There is substantial loss of life and many major and historic buildings in the centre of town are partly or wholly destroyed. The destruction includes two of the beautiful choral venues, the Anglican Cathedral in Cathedral Square and the Catholic Cathedral... [Read more]