Unfortunately due to COVID and other illness amongst a large number of our artists, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our scheduled performance of ‘death speaks’ on Sunday 26 June.

We are enormously disappointed not to share this music with you. We have been working toward this performance for many months and while we have gone to great lengths in an effort to avoid another cancelled concert, the combination of COVID and flu currently impacting our small ensemble has made it impossible to move forward with this weekend's performance without placing the wellbeing of our choristers at risk and severely compromising the standard of our performance.

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In some of Schubert’s most famous songs we encounter death not as a concept, but as a character. Nearly 200 years later, Schubert’s portrayals of death personified are the starting point for David Lang’s ‘death speaks’, a song cycle sung from the perspective of death, composed from fragments of 32 Schubert Lieder. 

In Death Speaks Luminescence Children’s Choir performs Lang’s acclaimed ‘death speaks’, alongside music inspired by the unknown. This is music that muses on the end; the one certainty and ultimate unknown.

ARTISTS

Luminescence Children’s Choir
Veronica Milroy, piano
Dan Russell, violin
AJ America, conductor

PROGRAMME

SCHUBERT, Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531

SCHUBERT, Moment Musicaux, Op.94 No 2, D. 780,

SCHUBERT, Coronach, Op.52, No. 4, D.836

YSAŸE, Sonata No. 2 in A Minor

LANG, Death Speaks

WHITWELL, She Walks in Beauty