Polyphony: The Rip

With songs by Portishead, Kate Bush, Shaznay Lewis and more, The Rip is a concert about water’s mutability and permanence, its danger and allure.

Drama builds and subsides, colours shift, depth changes; from the sparkling ‘Pure Shores’ to the hypnotic ‘Song to the Siren’, this is a setlist that rides the current out before swimming us back to shore again.

Program

• Agnes Obel / Riverside

• Claude Debussy / La Cathédrale Engloutie, Excerpt 1

• Portishead / The Rip

• Florence and the Machine / Never Let Me Go

• This Mortal Coil / Song to the Siren

• June Tabor / Shipbuilding

• Kate Bush / Hello Earth

• Claude Debussy / La Cathédrale Engloutie, Excerpt 2

• Joni Mitchell / River

• Sarah Blasko / Amazing Things

• All Saints / Pure Shores

About Polyphony

Polyphony is a not-for-profit, member-run community choir, rehearsing on Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney, Australia.

Founded over twenty years ago, Polyphony has been led by some of Australia’s leading musicians, including Jack Colwell, Sally Whitwell and Dan Walker.

We are currently led by award-winning composer and conductor Oliver John Cameron, and are rehearsed and accompanied by acclaimed pianist Paula Lu.