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Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir with Sydney’s The Australian Voices. Photo: Peter Hislop. Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 20, “Far and Near”, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Sunday, May 9. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA. THERE are few more pleasurable human experiences than sitting with other people listening to beautiful voices raised in song. So it was when Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir collaborated with Sydney’s The Australian Voices to perform 11 original compositions created specifically for them, as conductor Amber Evans explained, under the covid-related theme, “Far and Near”. The songs related both literally and figuratively to this idea so that while some composers focused on human separation, physical and emotional, one reflected on musical issues and others looked to the sea and the sky for inspiration. ....