
GLASS HEART
“My heart was indeed broken several times through the evening, yet I emerged healed and uplifted.”
[Limelight Magazine, 2024]
“exquisitely refined” [Canberra CityNews, 2024]
PAST PERFORMANCES
17 March 2024 | Wollongong
2pm, Wollongong Art Gallery
46 Burelli St, Wollongong NSW 2500
20 March 2024 | Sydney
7.30pm, ACO Pier 2/3 The Neilson
Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000
24 March 2024 | Canberra
6:00pm, Wesley Uniting Church
20-22 National Circuit, Forrest ACT 2603
Luminescence Chamber Singers delve into 500 years of love songs and break-up anthems. From Monteverdi’s monumental “Sestina” and Marenzio’s sensuous “Baci Soavi e Cari”, to music by David Lang, Eric Whitacre, Drew Crawford, and more. Glass Heart explores the fragility of life and love, and the shattering pain of heartbreak.
1 hour no interval
SESTINA: LAGRIME D’AMANTE AL SEPOLCRO DELL’AMATA Claudio Monteverdi (1614)
A CHANTAR M’ER Beatriz, Contessa di Dia (1175)
AH ROBIN, GENTLE ROBIN William Cornysh (1545)
I LIVE IN PAIN David Lang (2011)
WHEN THE HEART IS CUT OR CRACKED OR BROKEN Drew Crawford (2015)
MATONA MIA CARA Orlande de Lassus (1581)
A BOY AND A GIRL Eric Whitacre (2002)
BACI, SOAVI E CARI Luca Marenzio (1591)
KAIPAAVA Trad. Finnish Arr. Essi Wuorela & Jussi Chydenius (1999)
GLITTER IN THE AIR Alecia Moore (P!NK) /Billy Mann (2008), arr. Roland Peelman (2014)
FRAGILE Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (Sting), arr. Luminescence (2024)
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AJ America
mezzo soprano
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Lucien Fischer
baritone
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Veronica Milroy
soprano
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Rachel Mink
soprano
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Alasdair Stretch
bass
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Dan Walker
tenor