15-699: [REDACTED] Look up intervarsity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intervarsity , Inter Varsity or Inter-Varsity may refer to: All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships , now merged to form the United Asian Debating Championships. Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies Association InterVarsity Christian Fellowship /USA Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship , formerly
30-705: A Thousand") , again in the Sydney Opera House. More recently, the 55th IVCF ( Perth , 2004) took part in the Perth International Arts Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Antonín Dvořák by performing his Stabat Mater with the Prague Chamber Orchestra under Australian conductor Graham Abbott . IVCFs have a long if intermittent tradition of performance of works by Australian composers. At least sixteen performances since 1962 have included works commissioned by
45-630: A collaboration between the 58th IVCF and the Bonyi International Youth Festival. The organization behind the IVCF is the Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies Association (AICSA), which is a non-profit that represents each of the affiliated local choirs, with a purpose of encouraging choral music within tertiary academic settings. While officially formed in 1973, organizational cooperation to create
60-581: A commission from Anne Boyd (see Promotion of Australian Composition below). The first Australian InterVarsity Choral Festival took place in 1950 when the Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS) hosted the Melbourne University Choral Society (MUCS) for a week-long rehearsal camp culminating in a combined concert. Other university choirs joined over the years, with all State and Territory capitals (except Darwin in
75-691: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages intervarsity [REDACTED] Look up intervarsity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intervarsity , Inter Varsity or Inter-Varsity may refer to: All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships , now merged to form the United Asian Debating Championships. Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies Association InterVarsity Christian Fellowship /USA Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship , formerly
90-430: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages InterVarsity Choral Festival (Australia) The Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival is an annual event in which members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia and the national capital Canberra meet for two weeks to rehearse, socialise and perform combined concerts. The Festival also serves as
105-545: The Northern Territory ) having at least one member choir by 1973. The IVCF has since become the largest regularly occurring choral festival in Australia. From 1975 on, when the 26th IVCF performed Verdi 's Requiem in the then recently opened Sydney Opera House , IVCFs have striven to perform large-scale works to high standards with professional orchestras where appropriate and available. The 37th IVCF ( Brisbane , 1986)
120-486: The Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions InterVarsity Choral Festival (Australia) InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada) Inter Varsity Dance Competition InterVarsity Hockey , Field Hockey competitions in Australia between rival universities Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival Inter-Varsity Press See also [ edit ] Varsity (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
135-419: The Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions InterVarsity Choral Festival (Australia) InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada) Inter Varsity Dance Competition InterVarsity Hockey , Field Hockey competitions in Australia between rival universities Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival Inter-Varsity Press See also [ edit ] Varsity (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
150-655: The annual conference of the member choirs of AICSA, the Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies Association The festival is hosted by the AICSA choirs in a particular city on a rotational basis, the roster being maintained by AICSA's governing body, the Australian Intervarsity Choral Council (AIVCC). Most IVCFs have involved between 100 and 300 festival participants (choristers), who perform one to three concerts over
165-683: The course of about two weeks, often accompanied by a major symphonic orchestra. An example is the festival in 2008. IVCF was hosted by the Sydney University Musical Society in association with other university choirs including Macquarie University Singers , and the Music Society of the University of Technology (Sydney) , and performed a concert of English works including Thomas Tallis ' 40-part motet Spem in Alium and Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Serenade to Music , and one of Australian works including
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#1732844463602180-617: The festival, including Blue Gum Forest , composed by Matthew Orlovich for the 60th IVCF in 2009, Missa Pacifica by Anne Boyd , commissioned for the Sydney IVCF in 2008, and David Cassat 's "Flesh to Stone" for semichorus and divisi main chorus, commissioned by the 56th IVCF ( Melbourne ) in 2005. Many other InterVarsity Choral Festivals have included premiere performances of works, including Paul Stanhope 's "Pirramimma" for three choirs and string ensemble, performed in 2007 in Brisbane through
195-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Intervarsity . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intervarsity&oldid=1076642213 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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225-559: Was the first to work with its state's peak professional orchestra, the then Queensland Symphony Orchestra , the major work on the program being Herbert Howells ' Hymnus Paradisi . Two years later (1988), to celebrate Australia's bicentennial, the 39th IVCF collaborated with the Sydney Philharmonia and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit to perform Mahler's Symphony number 8 ("Symphony of
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