Excerpt 1: Anonymous Spanish Pilgrim Song, Mariam Matrem (14thC.)

From the concert at St Monica’s Church, Moonee Ponds on Sunday December 18, 1992.

The Astra Choir conducted by John McCaughey.

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For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building. The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.

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[Choir sings]