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We wanted to bring several different people, choirs and
ideas together for this concert in the newly reopened
Sydney Town Hall.

Most of you will know that the jewel in the crown is the grand organ and it is with great excitement that we invite Sydney's foremost player, David Drury, to unleash the power of this mighty machine.

This is just the right occasion to present the great works for organ and large chorus such as Parry's I Was Glad and Blessed Pair of Sirens! But as a contrast with the music of the "mother country", we will be exploring the land, the people and the cities of Australia through some of this country's most
evocative repertoire.

If you haven't heard our youth choir VOX sing, then book your seats now. They will perform Paul Stanhope's Geography Songs, Stephen Adams' Sydney Dreaming and Iain Grandage's Shore, written especially for our 2009 Dawn Chorus performances.

But to top it all off, a world premiere: Brighton to Bondi, a work written especially for this concert by Artistic & Musical Director Brett Weymark about "the ten pound poms".

Read more about Paul Stanhope here

Read more about Iain Grandage here

Title	Composer	Country
ACT ONE
I was Glad	Sir Hubert Parry	UK
Hymn of the Heart / Motet for the Heart	Raffaele Marcellino	AUS
Djilile	Peter Sculthorpe	AUS
Geography VI	Paul Stanhope	AUS
Mountain Chant	Ross Edwards	AUS
Home Sweet Home	Sir Henry Bishop	UK
As Torrents in Summer	Sir Edward Elgar	UK
The Long Day Closes	Sir Arthur Sullivan	UK
Crown Imperial March	Sir William Walton	UK
Lux Aeterna	Sir Edward Elgar	UK
ACT TWO
Brighton to Bondi	Brett Weymark	AUS
The Gillard Variations: Organ Improvisation	David Drury	AUS
Shore (as featured in Dawn Chorus)	Iain Grandage	AUS
Sydney Dreaming	Stephen Adams	AUS
Three Choral Hymns	Sir George Dyson	UK
Country Gardens for 8 hands	Percy Grainger	AUS
Across the Dark (Lonely Mother Earth/Us/A Big White Duck)	Benjamin van Tienan	AUS
La-La Land	Paul Stanhope	AUS
Losing the Plot	Paul Stanhope	AUS
Waltzing Matilda	Ruth McCall	AUS
Blessed Pair of Sirens	Sir Hubert Parry	UK
ENCORE
Jerusalem	Sir Hubert Parry	UK