[REMOVED] Australian Series: Reclaiming the Night

In this closing concert of the 2021 Australian Series, the CSO welcome guest ensemble Plexus. Driven by Monica Curro (violin), Philip Arkinstall (clarinet) and Stefan Cassomenos (piano), Plexus collaborates with Australian and international filmmakers, actors, directors, poets, choirs and visual artists as well as guest instrumentalists and vocalists. The program opens with "Into the Light" by Nat Bartsch, brimming with all the anticipation of a joyful departure into the unknown. From there, Leanne Bear bids us recall, almost violently, the image of Notre Dame ablaze. Series curator Deborah Cheetham offers one of her own works, "Insieme - Yapeneyepuk - Together", which asks the question: What will it take to bring us together? The program closes with Sally Greenaway’s Quietude, which evokes both the dark destruction of the battlefield and the fragile but tenacious hope that rises from it. Program: Into the Light (Nat Bartsch) Nôtre Gothique (Leanne Bear) Insieme - Yapeneyepuk - Together (Deborah Cheetham) World premiere, Plexus commission (Brenda Gifford) Quietude (Sally Greenaway) Entry Cost Adult $60 Concession $55 - Concession price available to holders of current, means-tested Australian pensions Concession $30 - $30 tickets available to patrons aged 30 years and under on 1 January 2021