‘Sweet home’

‘Sweet home’

The dearest spot of earth to me is Home, sweet Home!
The fairy land I long to see is Home, sweet Home!
There, how charm’d the sense of hearing!
There, where love is so endearing!

All the world is not so cheering as Home! sweet Home!
The dearest spot of earth to me is Home, sweet Home,
The fairy land I long to see is Home! sweet Home!

I’ve taught my heart the way to prize my Home, sweet Home,
I’ve learned to look with lover’s eyes on Home, sweet Home!
There, where vows are truly plighted!
There, where hearts are so united!

All the world besides I’ve slighted for Home, sweet Home!
The dearest spot of earth to me is Home, sweet Home!
The fairy land I long to see is Home, sweet Home!

1. Score [flipbook version]
2. Score [download as zipped file]
3. Guitar chords and tab in A major [PDF]
4. Guitar chords and tab in Bb major [PDF]

Researcher, University of Sydney

Project director for House Music at Your House, Nicole Forsyth, violist, loves storytelling through music, and the possibilities of old and new art telling stories across time.

Nicole’s career has featured work for Big hART Inc, Bundanon Trust, Moorambilla Voices, The Song Company, Halcyon, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Chamber Choir, Biennale of Sydney, Melbourne Recital Centre, Sydney Opera House Utzon Room, Sydney Living Museums, most of the Historically Informed Performance companies, and major festivals in Australia, and she has collaborated with numerous Australian composers.

Nicole co-founded Ironwood in 2006, and is Artistic Curator of BachBand@StJames, resident at St James King Street, which has a commissioning program for new work. She was Principal Viola for Pinchgut Opera 2001–2015. Her discography as principal and solo viola includes over 50 recordings for ABC Classic and other companies.

Nicole lectures in the Historical Performance Division at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her PhD, with Sydney Living Museums, looks at the music collection of Rouse Hill Estate 1813–1986, on Darug country, northwestern Sydney.

Luke is a Sydney-based composer, musical director and pianist. Recent commissions include Capricorn and Desert Sea for Sydney Philharmonia, Storm Bird, Buruwan Elegy and Birinyi for Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Where Sails Once Flew for Adelaide Chamber Singers. Luke arranged the national anthems for the 2015 Netball World Cup and in 2012 was composer-in-residence for Sydney Children's Choir.

In 2018, Luke's musical Between the Sea and Sky was selected for the New York Musical Festival where it won awards including Best Musical and Outstanding Music.

Luke is also a musical director in theatre, and in 2018 was the musical director for Sydney Theatre Company's The Harp in the South. Other credits include Muriel's Wedding and Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company), The Events for Sydney Festival/Belvoir/Malthouse, Hamlet (Belvoir), The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (Belvoir/Sydney Festival) Big Fish (Hayes Theatre), and The World's Wife (Melbourne Theatre Company).

Anna has gained a reputation as a versatile soprano specialising predominantly in the interpretation of early and contemporary repertoire.

Anna is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and New England Conservatory (Boston) and furthered her studies in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program featuring as a soloist at the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) under the direction of Richard Egarr and the late Antony Rolfe-Johnson.

As a core ensemble member of the Song Company for over a decade, Anna has had the pleasure of performing in a myriad of traditional and exploratory programming expertly demonstrating the versatility and virtuosity of a cappella singing. Equally at home as a dramatist on the stage presenting opera and historically informed chamber music, Anna is a strong exponent in music education, particularly with Moorambilla Voices and Gondwana Choirs.

Anna performs extensively with a number of Sydney's professional ensembles including Pinchgut Opera (since 2004 with notable roles in L'Orfeo, Dardanus, L’Ormindo, Castor et Pollux) and Cantillation; Sydney Chamber Opera (Dusapin’s Passion, Finsterer’s Biographica); Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Ironwood; The Acacia Quartet, Ensemble Offspring; Halcyon; Taikoz; Bach Akadamie Australia, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Salut! Baroque, Sydney Consort and Thoroughbass. Anna has collaborated with international ensembles such as period specialists The Wallfisch Band (Bach Unwrapped cantata programmes at Kings Place, London) and the New Zealand String Quartet (Adam Chamber Music Festival, NZ; Canberra International Music Festival).

The Dearest Spot on Earth to Me Is Home