THE BOYS . . . AND ONE GIRL: The popular and professional New Zealand Male Choir is set to reverberate St Andrew’s Church barrel ceiling when its performs in Gisborne tonight. The choir is pictured with accompanist Alison Holden. Picture supplied
THE BOYS . . . AND ONE GIRL: The popular and professional New Zealand Male Choir is set to reverberate St Andrew’s Church barrel ceiling when its performs in Gisborne tonight. The choir is pictured with accompanist Alison Holden. Picture supplied
Bui Doi (the dust of life) from a musical based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, Emily Dickinson’s poem The Moon Is Distant from the Sea set to music and traditional Maori hymn E Te Ariki are among songs to be performed by the New Zealand Male Choir in Gisborne tonight.
Made up of auditioned singers from throughout the country, the choir is managed by a professional music team who finetune the musical quality, takes rehearsals and direct performances and vocal training.
The result is a powerful collective of blokes who can sing in a wide range of genres that include choral works, popular, show, folk, waiata, sacred and gospel.
During a tour of Australia this year the NZ Male Choir sung to a capacity audience at Wagga Wagga and finished with a sold-out concert at Adelaide’s Bonython Hall.
Led by conductor Joseph Christensen, who sang bass in the Gisborne Choral Society’s (GCS) recent Beethoven concert, and accompanied by concert pianist Alison Holden, the male choir will be supported by the GSC.
The Gisborne choir will perform works such as The Armed Man composer Karl Jenkins’ knee-trembling God Shall Wipe Away All Tears, Gershwin’s Someone to Watch Over Me, and Anthony Ritchie’s The Iron Horse.
The Gisborne choir will also combine with the NZ Male Choir to perform Pietro Mascagni’s Easter Hymn and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Glory be to God.
What better way to round off Show day, says GCS musical director Gavin Maclean.
The NZ Male Choir, supported by Gisborne Choral Society will perform at St Andrew’s Church tonight from 7pm. Tickets at door, $25. Children and students free.
