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The dancers inherit the party

For their debut at Brucknerhaus, Theatre of Voices contrast polyphonic Renaissance masterpieces by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne and John Dowland with the Austrian premiere of Gabriel Jackson’s The Dancers Inherit The Party with lyrics by Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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WILLIAM BYRD            
Fantasia, II à 6

JOHN DOWLAND           
Lachrimae Antiquae — Flow my tears

ANTHONY HOLBORNE     
The Honie-Suckle (Almaine)
Tears of the Muses (Galliard)

JOHN DOWLAND           
Lachrimae Antiquae Novae  — Time and the bell (T. S. Eliot 1941)                                                                               
Lachrimae Gementes — Do not go gentle (Dylan Thomas 1951)

ANTHONY HOLBORNE    
The Night Watch (Almaine)
Galliard

  —intermission—

GABRIEL JACKSON
The dancers inherit the party

JOHN DOWLAND
Lachrimae Tristes — Ev'n such is time (Sir Walter Raleigh 1618)
Lachrimae Coactae — Many men are melancholy (Robert Burton 1621)

ANTHONY HOLBORNE       
Heigh ho holiday (Galliard)

JOHN DOWLAND             
Lachrimae Amantis — My God, I heard this day (George Herbert 1633)
Lachrimae Verae — The dove descending (T. S. Eliot 1942)                    

ANTHONY HOLBORNE     
Infernum (Pavan)
The Fairie-Round (Coranto)

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THEATRE OF VOICES
-Else Torp
-Kate Macoboy
-Anna Caroline Olesen
-Edward Woodhouse
-Paul Bentley-Angell
-William Gaunt

Paul Hillier, artistic director

Image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Sechs Tänzerinnen (1911), public domain