Mallets and Melody - A Soundscape of Song With Percussion: POSTPONED
229 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
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At 4.00 pm, Saturday, September 24, the newly completed interior of St Andrew’s Church on Church Street will resound with a unique combination of percussionists and choristers with Warren Warbrick adding sounds from the tangata whenua's Taonga pūoro. It promises to be a truly engaging concert with Music Director, Christine Archer-Lockwood having uncovered a variety of songs that mix singing with percussion.
Three of the pieces are written by New Zealanders with one, Laden Earth, 2020, by Pepe Becker being performed for the first time. This piece is a vocal tribute to Mother Earth, Papatuanuku, and is a rueful reminder of our role in helping her to keep humankind safe. Pepe's rhythms throughout the piece demand close attention by the singers with timely interactions with the percussionists acting as a metaphor for the theme.
Other New Zealand pieces by Anthony Ritchie and Gareth Farr tell of the rhythms of carving and the exhortation of planted seeds to grow. Prodigious English choral composer, Bob Chilcott, visited Uganda and was enthralled by the huge respect and care given locally made drums. He shaped four poems and put them to music with a very unique percussion accompaniment to capture the Ugandan tradition of drum making. Dan Forrest was commissioned to create a piece for percussion and choir and set his creation among the stars capturing both the sense of space and our attraction to particular elements. The late Dominick Argento, foremost US opera composer, translated a poem by Roman poet, Catullus, and used his opera composition skills to pen eight very lyrical songs expressly for percussion and choir.
Because of its unique nature, this promises to be a concert not to be missed.
Supported by the Earle Trust.
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