Just months after performing in one of the world’s most famous music venues – New York’s Carnegie Hall – , the Bendigo Youth Choir will be centre stage for a show in Melbourne’s iconic Hamer Hall.
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The choir will perform alongside a number of other choirs on September 9 when Hamer Hall presents David Kram’s mass choral work Peace – A Cantata for John Monash.
Kram is a well-known composer will rehearse with the choir tonight.
Bendigo Youth Choir associate artistic director Gail Godber said it was fabulous to get instruction directly from the composer.
“For most of the material we perform, we are not able to work with the composer,” she said.
“We had that opportunity at Carnegie Hall and it is very exciting to get it again with David Kram.”
More than 25 choristers from the Bendigo Youth Choir will help make up a mass choir of 200 voices for the Hamer Hall performance.
“It is a great learning curve for the choristers who learn about (Monash’s) experiences as well as performing,” she said.
“We have performed pieces of this cantata before but never the full version. David contacted us to be involved after worked with us a few years ago.”