Imagine that you just found out your favourite composer is a murderer (and got away with it). Or the songwriter you’ve been following for years just dropped a track fat-shaming his best friend. And a global conflict has suddenly made the guy who composed your wedding march really unpopular. What do you do?

Welcome to CANCEL CHOIR, where River City Voices dishes the dirt on your favourite classical musicians (and some favourites you mightn’t have met yet) in a short, sharp and spiky show that blends a showcase of the blockbuster classics relished by die-hard choral and opera fans alike, with an exploration of the contemporary cultural questions that cross from social media to the concert hall.

ARTISTS

Conductor: Sarah Penicka-Smith

Pianist: Philip Eames

River City Voices

Macarthur Girls High School Choir

PROGRAM

Program includes songs by 16^th Century composer Carlo Gesualdo, Beethoven (including excerpts from his Symphony No. 9 Finale), Puccini, Wagner, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and contemporary Ukrainian composer Natalia Tsupryk.