COLOURS OF COUNTRY

MONTSALVAT BARN GALLERY • SUN 14 MARCH, 2.30PM
BUY TICKETS
(approx 120 min performance, including interval)

ST JOHNS SOUTHGATE • TUE 16 MARCH, 1PM
BUY TICKETS
(approx 60 min performance, plus post-concert Q&A)

PRIMROSE POTTER SALON • THUR 18 MARCH, 7PM
BUY TICKETS
(approx 120 min performance, including interval)

JAMES HENRY  New Work ^*

MARGARET SUTHERLAND  String Quartet No.1 ^

GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE  String Quartet

CLAUDE DEBUSSY  String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 ^

^ These works comprise the St Johns Southgate 60 min concert program

* World premiere, commissioned by Flinders Quartet as part of Listen to the Land

"This eclectic and fascinating program features two influential, feisty women (I'm pretty sure they had to be) and two influential men, in the case of James Henry, in our own time and place. James is our First Peoples Advisor and his rational and most definitely not woke perspective is compelling. I look forward to discovering his musical voice too.  Margaret Sutherland is Australian compositional royalty and the juxtaposition of her first quartet with the sweetly charming, twenty-years-earlier offering of her French contemporary, Germaine Tailleferre (one of Les Six and the only woman), highlights the enormous variety of early 20th century styles. Les Six (a label invented by a music critic of the time) were rebelling against the lush harmonies and textures of their famous predecessors but interestingly, Debussy himself didn't like the label Impressionist given to his music and I can see why. His quartet is rhythmic, energetic and tough when it wants to be, along with its sublime lyrical beauty."
— WILMA SMITH, VIOLIN