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The Kate Kelly Song Cycle

for baritone, tenor and soprano soloists, unison voices, clarinet in B flat, violin, cello and accordion

Year:  2011   ·  Duration:  55m

Year:  2011
Duration:  55m

Films, Audio & Samples

Sample Score

Sample: first two pages of each part (piano reduction)

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Sample Score

Sample: first two pages of each part (full score)

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About

The Kate Kelly Song Cycle, a collaboration between New Zealand composer Ross James Carey and Central-west NSW writer Merrill Findlay, documents in song the life of one of Australia’s most famous daughters, Kate Kelly. The song cycle also exists in a version for soprano soloist.

The premiere of the work (version for soprano soloist) was given at the first Kilari-Lachlan River Arts Festival in Forbes, Central-west New South Wales on September 4 2011 by soprano Sian Prior, members of the Forbes Choir and Forbes Choir for Seniors, and an instrumental ensemble conducted by Bill Moxely.

The song cycle is in five parts, to be performed without a break:

  1. Prologue: Bricky’s Sorry Song
  2. Quong Lee’s Aria (Harvest Moon in Spring)
  3. Ghosts of Glenrowan
  4. Poor Irish and Wiradjuri
  5. I Heard the Banshee Cry

For more information
 on Kate Kelly and the Song Cycle and its genesis, please visit merrillfindlay.com.


Text note

Libretto by Merrill Findlay