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Reimagined Performances

In a series of concerts at historic sites, we delved into the historical record to stage concerts drawing on evidence of historical performance practice to bring colonial concerts to life. The concerts were staged on Gadigal Country at some of the sites of first contact around what became Sydney Harbour – Warrane (Sydney Cove), Woccanmagully (Farm Cove) and Tubowgule (Bennelong Pt). We explored the Country and the historic buildings constructed on it – Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly stables for Government House), Elizabeth Bay House and Government House.

Concerts

Concert, From the Sydney Amateur Concerts 1826
 

Sydney Conservatorium of Music
27 May 2021

 Music of the 1840s at Warrane and Government House Sydney

Government House Sydney
31 October 2023

Songs from the River

Macquarie Arms Hotel
October 2024

On the Plains of Emu: Settler Art Music in Early NSW
 

Elizabeth Bay House 
27 February 2022

The Syrens of Sydney: Musical Rarities from the Collections of MHNSW

Vaucluse House
26 May 2024

Scenes that are Brightest: Sydney House Music of the 1840s and 1850s

Elizabeth Bay House 
12 February 2023

Call and Response: Musical Dialogues from the Collections of the SLNSW

State Library of NSW 
5 October 2024

Songs

Peace to the Souls of the Heroes

John Wall Callcott (1766-1821)

The Tempest
 

William Horsley (1774-1858)

Overture to Lodoiska
 

Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831)

Overture to Guy Mannering

Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1855)

Pleyel's Flute Quartet
No. 6, Op. 20, No. 3

Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831)

Bold Jack Donohue

Australian Folk Song (c. 1830s)

Fishing Song

Song of the people of Sydney

Glorious Apollo
 

Samuel Webbe (1740-1816)

Lightly Tread, 'tis Hallowed Ground

‘John Scotland’, George Berg (c. 1720-1775)

Home, Sweet Home
 

Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1855)

The Magic Flute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Violin Solo
Corelli Op. 5

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Snow Song

Traditional song of the Ngarigu people

The Wolf
 

William Shield (1748-1829)

The Beautiful Boy
 

Irish Tune (Ballynamony ora)

The Exile of Erin on the Plain of Emu

Reverend John McGarvie (c. 1829)

Here in Cool Grot

Garrett Wesley, Lord Mornington (1735-1781)

Pleyel's Violin Duet
Op. 8, No. 1

Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831)

Koorinda Braia

Song of the Ngarigu people

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