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NSSO: Joy, pathos, deep reflection, glory and sheer exuberance

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | A Hebrew Celebration Featuring Bel a cappella 24 September, 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The notion of music as theatre is something that’s always interested me. It takes us beyond merely the act of ‘listening’ to a concert, obliging us instead to reckon with the entire spectacle. Each and everyone has a job to do and

Ron Ringer September 26, 2022

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Bel a cappella full of light and radiant optimism

Bel a cappella | Vidi Aquam August 21, 2022, St Augustine’s Balmain With guests Coro Innominata As the clear winter light filtered through the rose window of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Balmain, we were bathed in “spiritual light” through the evocative singing by choristers from Bel a cappella and Coro Innominata. These two choirs (plus some other individuals) were to

Heidi Hereth August 24, 2022

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Bel a cappella’s most beautiful concert

Bel a cappella | Ancient Lands May 8, 2022, St. Augustine’s, Balmain, NSW On a glorious Autumn afternoon, we were blessed to be able to experience the glorious contemporary sounds of Bel a cappella in St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Balmain. Although Covid had reduced the size of the choir, they decided to go ahead with the performance anyway, in

Heidi Hereth May 10, 2022

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Bel a cappella raised a toast to 2020 and its 25th birthday with a ‘Bel’issimo programme of music in store

December 1, 2019, “A Boy Was Born”. What better way to ring in the festive season than with a bit of Britten? Last Sunday I was fortunate enough to sing in the final concert of Bel a cappella’s 2019 program, presenting this epic work (which I should point out was written by Britten at the age of 19) plus other

Pepe Newton December 9, 2019

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Bel a cappella’s 2019 Come & Sing Project was a super day of singing and camaraderie

It was with a light heart and high expectations that I boarded the Saturday morning ferry towards Cockatoo Island for the 2019 Bel a cappella Come and Sing Project. My expectations were high because this was the second such project I had participated in with Bel, the first being a three-hour rehearsal of Thomas Tallis’s complex 40 part motet Spem in

Pepe Newton September 24, 2019

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Bel a cappella’s superbly sung concert beautifully balanced abstract with descriptive works

Entering the beautiful Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the heights above Manly suitably prepared me for an afternoon of soaring voices and close harmonies from Bel a cappella. They began with their backs to the audience, singing John Cage’s ear for EAR (antiphonies), in antiphonal style, without the conductor. Solo tenor, Ben Mullaney, sang a wordless phrase from the other

Heidi Hereth August 6, 2019

A Baltic Musical Cruise with Bel a cappella

There is something special about an a capella group that sings religiously-inspired music in a church with a generous acoustic, without too much reverberation. Thus it was at the Paddington Uniting Church on Friday 9 August. This group of experienced choristers under the musical leadership of Anthony Pasquill took us on a sublime musical journey around the ‘roof’ of the

John O'Brien August 19, 2013

Anthony Pasquill

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