In God’s Esperanto – Damien Ricketson (b. 1973)
Sydney 2008, premiered by Ensemble Offspring – new version for The Song Company
The Singing Club – Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
from A Collection of Catches, ed. Mr. Welcker, London c. 1764
Sound and Sense – Amanda Stewart
From I/T, Selected poems, Sydney, 1991 -
Super Flumina Babylonis (By the rivers of Babylon) – Orlande de Lassus (1532-1596)
From Secondo libro delle fiamme, Girolamo Scotto, Venice 1567
Ur-Sonata, 4th movement : Presto – Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Hannover, 1922-32
Warm up – Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
New York, 1970, 1982 L. Bernstein Ent. Inc.
I’m a Train – A. Hammond and M. Hazelwood arr. Peter Knight
© 1968 Shaftesbury Music Co Ltd. London
Air du Poète (Air of the Poet) – Erik Satie (1866-1925)
From Ludions, Paris 1923, adapted for The Song Company 2008
Hey Diddle Diddle – Martin Wesley-Smith (b. 1945)
From Songs for Kids, Sydney, 1989, on a text by Peter Wesley-Smith
On talkativeness (extract) – Plutarch (c.46 AD – c.120 AD)
From Moralia, c.100AD
Three Blind Mice – Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582-1635)
From Deuteromelia, London 1609
When Celia was learning – John Isum (c1680-1726)
From The Second Book of the Pleasant Musical Companion (5th edition), Henry Playford, London 1707
Dodil – Frank Nuyts (b. 1957)
From The XXX Songs, Gent (Belgium), 2007 – on a text by Jelle Meander
Nachtmusik (Night music) – Frank Nuyts (b. 1957)
From The XXX Songs, Gent (Belgium), 2007 – on a text by Jelle Meander
Bona Nox (Good Night) KV 561 – W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Vienna, 2-9-1788
Eve Blossom – Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
from Schwitters’ own translation of ‘An Anna Blume’ (1919)
Chuck the Duck – Saidah Rastam (b. 1964)
Kuala Lumpur, 2001 on a text by Kit Leee – commissioned by The Song Company
Interval
doublethink – Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith (b. 1945)
music theatre for six voices and bucket, commissioned by the Song Company – Kangaroo Valley 2004-05
Fast talking: The last words of Dutch Schultz – Andrew Schultz (b. 1960)
Written for Andrew Ford, Wollongong, December 1988
Keep your Lamps – Traditional Spiritual arr. TSC
Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego – R. McGimsey arr. Graham Hair (b. 1943)
Atom and Evil – Zaret/Singer arr. Graham Hair (b. 1943)
Wade in the Water – Traditional arr. Moses Hogan
Thina Silindeli Zulu – T.T. Mbatha
Sathane Akanamandla – Trad. Zulu Bana Ba Lesedi
