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How to commission a Red Dirt Hymn

22 February, 2021

Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns (‘The right idea for strange times’ – Harriet Cunningham, Limelight, March 2021) are a sequence of songs about hope and fear, courage, resilience, forbearance and forgiveness – in fact, the sorts of things hymns have always been about. They have new, specially commissioned lyrics by some of Australia’s finest poets […]

‘Gone’ sung and arranged by Gian Slater

3 October, 2020

Gian Slater has made this beautiful arrangement of ‘Gone’, the first of Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns. It has words by Jordie Albiston. Andrew Ford · 'Gone' from Red Dirt Hymns Andrew Ford · ‘Gone’ from Red Dirt Hymns

The Sea and The Mirror – a premiere and an article

2 October, 2019

An article in the Limelight magazine by Angus McPherson about Andrew Ford’s new work The Sea and The Mirror: In Andrew Ford’s program note for The Sea and the Mirror, which violinist Tor Frømyhr and cellist David Pereira will perform for the first time in Canberra on Friday, he dedicates the piece to Kim Williams, partly […]

Farewell to Gerald English

9 February, 2019

The tenor Gerald English (1925-2019) had a long and distinguished career, beginning as a founder member of the Deller Consort in 1950. He sang in some of the first modern performances of Monteverdi’s operas and madrigals, and worked with composers such as Stravinsky and Britten, Tippett, Henze and Berio. In 1977 he founded the Opera […]

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