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12 works · 41:13

1 Jamaica, Farewell Traditional 1:47
2 Chiapanecus Traditional 2:08
3 Summer Sunshine 2:13
4 Sing a Rainbow Arthur Hamilton 2:24
5 Wo Ai Pei Ching Tien an Men Traditional 1:40
6 Hsiao Sung Shu Traditional 1:21
7 Wo Sih Kung She Hsiao She Yuan Traditional 1:44
8 Click Go the Shears Traditional 1:35
9 The Stock-Rider's Song William Garnet James 3:10
10 Song of Youth William Garnet James 2:09
Folk Songs of the Four SeasonsRalph Vaughan Williams 4 movements12:45
1. 11 Summer is a-coming in and The Cuckoo 3:45
2. 12 John Barleycorn 2:55
3. 13 Acre of Land 2:11
4. 14 God Bless the Master 3:54
Songs of Come and GoneDon Kay 5 movements8:17
1. 15 Tartary 2:27
2. 16 Fiddler of Dooney 1:34
3. 17 Very Old Are the Woods 2:52
4. 18 Autolycus's Song :45
5. 19 Here Are the Skies :39

This recording marked the choir's tenth anniversary and its 1975 cultural tour of China, and was its first with a full symphony orchestra.

Directed by Jennifer Filby and conducted by Vančo Čavdarski, the programme ranges from Jamaican, Mexican and Chinese songs through Australian bush ballads to movements from Vaughan Williams's Folk Songs of the Four Seasons and Don Kay's Songs of Come and Gone.

In the artist’s words

During my recent association with The Rosny Children's Choir I was impressed by their highly professional standard of singing and the magnificent way in which they responded to my baton. Mrs Jennifer Filby has trained them to such a high degree of technical perfection that any conductor would find them a joy to work with. These talented children are already experienced performers whose dedication goes hand in hand with unbounded enthusiasm and youthful freshness. I congratulate them on their artistic achievements in the past and wish them every success in the future. They deserve to be rated among Australia's finest ambassadors.

— Vančo Čavdarski

Artists

Australian Rosny Children's Choir

choir

The Australian Rosny Children's Choir started in 1967 by music teacher Jennifer Filby, has toured extensively within Australia, performing in all the major concert venues, and appearing with the Sydney, Melbourne, South Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

orchestra

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has an enviable reputation as one of the world's great small orchestras. With a full-time strength of 47 players, which can be augmented when the programme demands, it is known for classical polish and a lively commitment to new work.

Jennifer Filby

choir director

Jennifer Filby (1938–1997) was a Tasmanian choral director and piano teacher who founded the Australian Rosny Children’s Choir in 1967 and led it for three decades.

Vančo Čavdarski

conductor

Vančo Čavdarski (1930–2001) was a Yugoslav-born conductor whose international career included long appointments with major Australian symphony orchestras. His repertoire spanned opera, ballet and the concert platform.

William Garnet James

composer

William Garnet James (1892–1977) was an Australian pianist and composer who became a pioneer of music broadcasting as the ABC’s first Director of Music.

Don Kay

composer

Don Kay (born 1933) is a Tasmanian classical composer whose work ranges from symphony, opera and concerto to chamber, choral, vocal and piano music, often shaped by the island’s landscape, ecology and history.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.

Peter Davies

composer

Peter Davies is a composer, arranger and producer. His settings of Australian children’s verse, and his arrangements for choir and orchestra, appear on Move recordings with the Australian Rosny Children’s Choir.