Event: NATIONAL BOYS CHOIR OF AUSTRALIA “SING CHRISTMAS” CONCERT
Time/Date: 5:00PM, SUNDAY DECEMBER 10TH
Place MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
Despite the proliferation of Christmas decorations in shops and streets, you still don’t feel like untangling your tinsel. You’re not hearing those bells jingling either nor are you hearing the HO HO HO! from the Old Man himself.
In fact, you’re not feeling very “Christmas-y” at all?
Well, there’s one sure fire way to fix that and it’s to get yourself, family, and friends along to hear the National Boys Choir of Australia SING CHRISTMAS! Tickets: trybooking.com/events/landing/1132859
Artistic Director of the NBCA, Andrew Bainbridge says: “This year’s Christmas concert will be a ripper! Everyone will be performing and together they sound superb,” he enthused.
”You won’t just hear the angelic tones of the Performing Choir; you’ll hear the Training Choir, The Young Men’s Choir, and the combined Boys and Men’s Choir performing with guest organist Tony Halliday, playing that magnificent pipe organ in the Town Hall,” he declared.
The featured work at Sing Christmas will be John Rutter’s Fable with Music “Brother Heinrich’s Christmas”. This is the legend of the 14th-century Dominican monk and mystic, Heinrich Suso
who transcribed the carol In dulci jubilo after it had been sung to him by a band of angels; he is unexpectedly aided by Sigismund, his donkey.
Originally composed for choir, orchestra, and narrator, the NBCA has been given special permission by the composer to adapt the script and present it as a semi-staged and costumed work. The costumes have been made by Maddy Connellan, and staging will be by guest director, Nathan Jetson.
The concert will also include a wide variety of well-known and new carols, and Christmas songs, for a joyful celebration of the start of the Christmas season.
If you wish to see the choir again before Christmas Day, The NBCA Performing choir will also be at the following events:
- Christmas Morning Melodies
Hamer Hall
Monday 11 December, 11:00 am & 1:30 pm
- Carols in the Cathedral
Royal Melbourne Philharmonic
St Paul’s Cathedral
Friday 15 December 8:30 pm, Saturday 16 December 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
- Christmas at Crown
Crown Casino Atrium
Wednesday 20, Thursday 21 & Sunday 24 December,1:00, 3:00 & 5:00 pm
- Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Sunday 24 December
8:00 pm
To arrange an interview with NBCA Artistic Director, Andrew Bainbridge, please call him on 0437 191 437 or NBCA President, 1985 Choir Captain and Member of the Men’s Choir, Keith Mortimer on 0403 581 479 or Artistic Director of the Training Choirs, Mandy Lyn Brook on 0421 817 921. Any other requests, phone NBCA Media, Julie Foster 0409 433 501.