The 48th Intervarsity Choral Festival: PERTH, 25 January–9 February 1997

Chorusmasters: Ben Macpherson, Kynan Johns
Accompanists: Michael Winikoff, Anna Chilcott
Camp Venue: Ern Halliday Recreation Camp, Hillaries
Participants: SCUNA, AUCS, FUCS, MUS, MUCS, MonUCS, MuscUTS, PUCS, QUMS, SUMS, TUMS
FIBS: TRAVELLER

COMMITTEE

Convenor: Sarah Penn
Secretary: Dean Economou
Treasurer: Karen Williams
Camp Officer: Anna Hicks
ConMan: Jonathan Paxman
Librarian: Vicki Hodgkin
Publicity: Toby Oldham
Social Secretary: Bob Yuncken
Transport & Billeting: Crispen Harris
Merchandise: Chris Loader
Ombudspeople: Rob Burns, Chris Burger

CONCERT 1

8pm, 1 Feb., Winthrop Hall, UWA
Conductor: Ben Macpherson
Soloists: Deborah Grace, Kylie Anderson, Peter Campbell, Kynan Johns, Andrew Wailes
Program: Mendelssohn Ave Maria, Verdi Laudi alla Vergine Maria, Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor [organ], Dean Rancewycz The Lamb, Bruckner Tota Pulchra es Maria, Tallis Lucis ante Terminum, Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor
Notes: Org: John Beaverstock. Clare Maclean’s Leise Rieselt der Schnee was advertised but not performed.

CONCERT 2

8pm, 7 Feb. & 8 Feb., Perth Concert Hall
Conductor: Albert Rosen
Soloists: Rosamund Illing, Bernadette Cullen, Horst Hoffman, David Hibbard
Program: Beethoven Symphony No.8, Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Janácek Glagolitic Mass
Notes: For the ABC and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Master Series
Review: Neville Cohn “Challenging Mass”, West Australian, 10 Feb. 1997, ‘Today’: 5. “It was an inspiration on the part of the ABC programmers to entrust the first ever account of Janacék’s Mass by the WASO to Albert Rosen … If the 160-strong Intervarsity Festival Choir’s treatment of the word ‘Hosanna’ in the Sanctus sounded disappointingly tame, its response to the rest of the section was generally excellent as was its presentation of the Kyrie earlier in the piece; its reverential, hushed singing here was an object lesson in what fine ensemble singing is all about. And in the Gloria, an essay in joyous shouting, both choir and tenor Horst Hoffman … sang as if to the manner born.”

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