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Five centuries of song

scunaSCUNA, the ANU Choral Society, directed by Johanna McBride will preset songs from five centuries of German, Austrian and Hungarian music, including Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bartok and Kodaly, with accompaniment by Anthony Smith and Max McBride, on Saturday.

The program, SCUNA says,  will progress through “life’s great moods and concerns:  songs about life and spring, of love, laments and parting;  sacred music, and songs of the night.”  The right result promises to be a trip through Europe accompanied (imaginatively) by gypsies, nightingales, lovers, and a gondolier.

“Mozart’s Go-Cart” will reveal secrets about Mozart’s childhood in Salzburg.  And, SCUNA  asks enigmatically: “What must a white chook achieve to deserve having a madrigal sung in its honour?”

The concert will end with  Beethoven’s Earliest thoughts on what eventually became the  “Ode to Joy”.

“Songs From the Heart of Europe,” at  the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, 15 Blackall Street (corner of Kings Avenue), Barton, 7.30pm, Saturday August 3, bookings to trybooking.com/54822 or tickets at the door. Adults $30, concession $25, children $15.

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