2023 Season
Cloudburst
Polyphonic Voices is pleased to present a concert of music exploring environmental and social justice issues, including works by Joe Twist, Rollo Dilworth, and Eric Whitacre.
Highlights include:
Rollo Dilworth’s Weather: Stand the Storm is a sweeping modern epic that incorporates blues and African-American spiritual elements as it positions the senselessly violent death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement against the backdrop of the isolation, inequality and confusion created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This performance is an Australian premiere.
Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst evokes the percussive impact of a sudden rainstorm in the desert – the text by Mexican poet Octavio Paz speaks of the rain awakening humanity to its connection with the earth and responsibility to care for it.
Joe Twist’s How Shall We Sing in a Strange Land aligns powerful words by celebrated Indigenous poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a member of the Stolen Generation, with the text of Psalm 137 – the lament of the Israelites in exile.
3:00pm, Sunday 30 July
Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, Geelong
Presented by Music at the Basilica