River City Voices - Cancel Choir - River City Voices
3:30pm, Sat, 17 Aug 2024
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Type of event: Concert Start time: 3:30pm End time: 4:45pm External website related to this event: https://www.rivercityvoices.org.au/events Venue: Macarthur Girls High School, Main Hall Description: 
Imagine that you just found out your favourite composer is a murderer (and got away with it). Or the songwriter you’ve been following for years just dropped a track fat-shaming his best friend. And a global conflict has suddenly made the guy who composed your wedding march really unpopular. What do you do?
Welcome to CANCEL CHOIR, where River City Voices dishes the dirt on your favourite classical musicians (and some favourites you mightn’t have met yet) in a concert that blends a showcase of the blockbuster classics relished by die-hard choral and opera fans alike, with an exploration of the contemporary cultural questions that cross from social media to the concert hall.
It’s a short, sharp and spiky show that contemplates the artist versus the artwork and asks the big questions - how do we view old works with contemporary eyes and understandings? Why do we cancel some artists and not others? And what’s the cost?
Concert program includes songs by 16th Century composer Carlo Gesualdo, Beethoven (including excerpts from his Symphony No. 9 Finale), Puccini, Wagner, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and contemporary Ukrainian composer Natalia Tsupryk.
TIMES: 3.30pm & 7.30pm
River City Voices
Conductor: Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith
Pianist: Dr Philip Eames
Macarthur Girls High School Choir
