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BRIGHT NEW DAY: Vox Angelica
Geelong Art Gallery of The Choral Grapevine
March 16, 2025
Vox Angelica, Geelong's foremost chamber choir, made a welcome return to the concert platform with their first performance for the year — Bright New Day.
The Geelong Art Gallery was the setting for this performance with a fortunate audience limited to only fifty people.
Tom Healey, Vox Angelica's director, introduced the program as a meditative concert of music fitting for the pre-Easter season, and reflecting on the consequences of wars past and present. [...]
[...]The next piece also reflected wars past. Australian composer Melissa Dunphy is now based in the USA. For her work Waves of Gallipoli she chose headstone epitaphs from soldiers killed in the first world war. Towards the end of the work a soprano solo softly chants the opening phrase from the evening bugle call before the quiet ending which echoes the whispering wind sounds of the opening.