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Emerging Artist Concert Series 2025 | Ocean Whisperings: Penelope & Other Stories

St Jude's Bowral, Bendooley Street, Bowral NSW, Australia

Event Date: Every Wednesday ending 5 Feb 2025, 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

SONGS INSPIRED BY THE OCEAN AND IT’S PLACE IN OUR IDENTITY

Olive Cullen (mezzo-soprano), Ronan Apcar (piano), and Sarah Collins (soprano) launch the 2025 Emerging Concert Artist Series with a musical journey that captures the ocean’s timeless influence from Greek antiquity to modern Australia.

At the core of their program, they present songs from ‘Penelope,’ a song cycle by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, with lyrics by playwright Ellen McLaughlin. Inspired by Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home. The New York Times (2015) described it as “a rapturous song cycle.”

Also featuring in the program are: The Lotus Eaters, from Penelope, Sarah Kirkland Snider | Penelope, by Cecilia Livingston | Dead Friend, from Penelope|Youkali, by Weill | The Land Where Corals Lie, from Sea Pictures, by Elgar | Cruda Sorte, from l’Italiana in Algeri, by Rossini | Hymne a l’amour, by Piaf & Monnot | At the edge of the sea, by Holland | Home, from Penelope | Harbour Song (Ronan piano solo) | The Mermaid’s Lament, by Martin | Les Berceaux, by Faure (Sarah’s piece).

Facilities

  • Family Friendly

Contacts

St Jude's Bowral, Bendooley Street, Bowral NSW, Australia

P. 0408422427

E. inspiremusicaust@gmail.com

W. https://ticketing.humanitix.com/tours/inspire-emerging-concert-artists-2025

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