Elizabeth Bay House Concert: Your Eyes Have the Twin Star's Light; words by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop

Words by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (c.1796-1880): ‘Your Eyes Have the Twin-Star's Light’ (Tune: The Foggy Dew, arr. Edward Bunting) (Sydney, 1839) – FIRST MODERN PERFORMANCE.

Koen van Stade (tenor)
Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte)

The Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop arrived in NSW with her family in January 1838, and over the next two years her series of eight Songs of Exile were successively published in Sydney newspapers. ‘Your Eyes Have the Twin-Star's Light’ was written for the Irish tune Foggy Dew, and is the lullaby of an emigrant mother to a beloved child she has left behind.

‘On the Plains of Emu: Settler Art Music in Early NSW’, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022. A concert presented by the Sydney Living Museums Foundation and Hearing the Music of Early New South Wales 1788-1860, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. Australian Research Discovery Project DP210101511 – 2021–24.

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