13-15 OCTOBER 2017 - Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
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1 3 -1 5 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7 P O R T F A I R Y S P R I N G F E S T. C O M . A U
WELCOME
What a great pleasure to welcome
you to the 2017 Port Fairy Spring
Music Festival – a meditation on
human migration.
From the first waves of indigenous settlement 60,000
JOURNEY WITH US years ago to the later tides of migrants, contemporary
Australian culture is an accumulation of histories and
THROUGH A WEEKEND
interweaving stories - one that revels in its extraordinary
diversity yet still reveals our shared humanity.
OF FINE MUSIC So it is that we build on last year’s strong indigenous
component by continuing ASQ‘s rapturously received
I AI N G R ANDAG E ‘Quartet and Country’ series with new works from Lou
Artistic Director Bennett and Stephen Pigram, and finish our Festival
with a concert that includes the music of the creator
of Bran Nue Dae, the late Jimmy Chi.
From traditional chamber music
We open the Festival with another commission, from
classics to exciting new works, the Persian Australian singer Tara Tiba called My Mothers
Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Mother, which tells the story of Port Fairy children’s
families, and their arrival in Australia. We continue by
brings scintillating performances by reflecting on some of the great human journeys that
established and emerging musicians spread cultures around the globe - transcendent reveries
from the Silk Road, joyous reels and baroque dances that
to the world’s most liveable town. trace the Celtic traversing of the Atlantic, and music from
Italy, Greece and across the Jewish diaspora.
We have deeply personal journeys from Anna
Goldsworthy, with her autobiographical ‘Piano Lessons’,
1 3 -1 5 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7 joyful lunch time reminiscences from soprano Taryn
Fiebig, dazzling virtuosity from superstar Kate Miller-
Heidke, and jazz royalty Vince Jones & Paul Grabowsky
play their lauded album ‘Provenance’.
EVENT SPONSOR We have the stupendous choir Hallelujah Junction singing
a pair of contemporary humanitarian masterpieces by
David Lang, the Tinalley Quartet bringing us matching
programs from across the US:USSR divide, Jen
Anderson’s remarkable score to the silent film Pandora’s
Box, and we feature speechsong works that include
recordings from dictators, Jewish refugees and Australian
asylum seekers.
We thank you, our wonderful and loyal audience, for again
looking to undertake your own migration to Port Fairy this
Photo credit (this page & cover): Pia Johnson
year, and look forward to sharing these songs, stories and
rituals from around the globe.
CHAIR’S WELCOME MINISTER’S MESSAGE
On behalf of the Board, a Port Fairy Spring Music
very warm welcome to the Festival attracts music
2017 Port Fairy Spring lovers from around Victoria,
Music Festival! interstate and overseas –
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone
so it’s fitting that this
to Port Fairy in October. year’s Festival theme
Last year many more people from the local is Migrations.
community and across Victoria enjoyed the
Festival, and we hope the offerings in this The program highlights human journeys and,
brochure encourage their return. as we’ve come to expect, brings together the
talents of established artists with new and
P ENNY HUTCHINS ON We thank the State Government for increasing M ART I N FO L EY MP emerging performers and composers.
Festival Chair the support the Festival receives this year - Minister for
it is deeply appreciated. We also thank the Shire Creative Industries Artistic Director Iain Grandage continues the
of Moyne for their continuing support, and the Festival’s ambitious artistic vision and this year
many local businesses and community members includes three new commissioned works, two
who are there for us. involve renowned Indigenous artists, and the
third is inspired by the stories of local families
We also appreciate the private individuals and
and their memories of arrival.
philanthropic supporters who have joined the
Festival family in recent years. There are several A much loved regional event, the Port Fairy
ambitious projects in this Festival which simply Spring Music Festival continues to grow in
would not happen without them. stature and popularity and last year saw a
more than 20 percent increase in both box
This year Iain has prepared a program with the
office and attendance.
theme of ‘Migrations’. Every time I journey to Port
Fairy I feel as though I am “migrating” to another The Victorian Government is a proud partner
world and I hope everyone enjoys the journey and and supporter of the Festival. I commend Iain
the destination this year. and the team on an inspired program that
reflects the creativity and diversity that is a
feature of Victoria’s cultural life.
Enjoy this year’s journey.
4 Photo credit: Pia Johnson 5
In the words of the late great Indigenous
Australian composer Jimmy Chi, whose music will FESTIVAL PROGRAM
MIGRATIONS close this year’s Festival, ‘We’re all one mongrel
breed’. It feels important to remember sentiments PERFORMANCE TIME VENUE PAGE
BY IAIN like that in the face of rising Nationalism and SCHOOL’S CONCERT: MUSIC 11:30am RT 36
FRIDAY
fractured geo-politics, what with the idea of ‘the IN THE MOVIES & 1:30pm
GRANDAGE common good’ being increasingly quashed.
If you trace back the DNA in the maternally
THE SILK ROAD: FRIDAY 4pm SH 20
NAB OPENING GALA: FOR ALL NATIONS 8pm SPS 8
inherited mitochondria within our cells, all
humans have a theoretical common ancestor. PANDORA’S BOX – A LIVE FILM SCORE 8pm RT 10
This woman, known as “mitochondrial Eve”, ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE 10pm DH 11
lived between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago in
southern Africa. She makes an appearance in the
work that opens this year’s Festival - My Mother’s VIENNA CONGRESS 10am RT 13
SATURDAY
Mother – a work that looks at the first few OF FOREIGN LANDS AND PEOPLE 10am LH 12
generations back towards this Ur-woman, as a
BRAHMS SEXTET 11:30am RT 15
means of recognizing our shared and intertwined
histories. I have written this work in collaboration CELTIC JOURNEYS 11:30am STJ 14
with Tara Tiba, whose own story of arrival from PIANO MASTERCLASS 11:30am LH 36
Iran is both compelling and deeply moving. She is SATURDAY LUNCH: TARYN FIEBIG 12:45pm DH 16
trained in the Persian classical tradition, I in the
Western classical tradition. PIANO LESSONS 2pm RT 17
RUSSIAN ROMANCE 2pm LH 19
Music, unlike language, has the ability to support
simultaneous conversation whilst maintaining TEN POUND POMS 2pm SPS 18
cohesion and reasoned argument. Not only this, THE AMERICAN 3:30pm STJ 21
but the component musical statements can be of THE SILK ROAD: SATURDAY 3:30pm SH 20
wildly different provenance yet still find common
ground - be it musical (harmonic, rhythmic, JAZZ AT 5: PROVENANCE 5:15pm RT 23
motivic) spiritual or psychological. There is a ACROSS THE WATER 5:15pm DH 22
rare joy in successfully distilling a common
KAWAI SATURDAY GALA: FOUR LAST SONGS 8:15pm RT 24
thread between disparate musical worlds – a
contentment that for me far outweighs any work KATE MILLER-HEIDKE 8:15pm SPS 26
created by myself in isolation LATE NIGHT SWING 10pm DH 27
At its most successful, collaborative works
give audiences raised in one particular cultural
practice a way of comprehending another. We STRADIVARIUS 10am RT 29
SUNDAY
hope that is the case with My Mother’s Mother. CELLO ALONE 10am LH 30
The aim with this work, as with many cross THE SILK ROAD: SUNDAY 10am SH 20
cultural collaborations, is to create musical QUARTET AND COUNTRY 11:30am RT 31
stories that celebrate a multitude of cultural LIT TLE MATCH GIRL PASSION 11:30am STJ 33
backgrounds but also speak of the things
that bind – they are intrinsically more EAST MEETS WEST 11:30am LH 32
powerful than divisions. SUNDAY LUNCH: TARYN FIEBIG 12:45pm DH 16
As Tim Winton’s character Quick Lamb says in SCHUBERT QUINTET 2pm RT 35
Cloudstreet –“It’s us and us and us. We all join up STALIN’S PIANO 2pm DH 34
in the end” CLOSING EVENT: ALL ONE MONGREL BREED 3:30pm SPS 37
LEGEND
RT: Reardon Theatre SH: Seacombe House STJ: St. John’s Church
SPS: Southcombe Park Stadium LH: Lecture Hall DH: Drill Hall
6 Photo credit: Pia Johnson 7
NAB OPENING GALA:
DATE & TIME
Friday 13th October 8pm
FOR ALL NATIONS VENUE
Southcombe Park Stadium
TRANSFORMATIVE CHORAL MUSIC
FOR OUR TIME TICKETS
$47 / $38 conc.
Members of the Australian Octet Our Festival begins with an exquisite journey from
William Hennessy Principal Violin darkness to light, celebrating the intertwined
nature of human histories. Richard Strauss’
Hallelujah Junction
Metamorphosen is one man’s outpouring of grief
Jonathan Grieves-Smith Conductor
at the senseless destruction of Dresden, but it
Tara Tiba Voice stands here as a determination to never allow such
Taryn Fiebig Voice follies to re-occur. Performed in its Septet version,
Jessica Hitchcock Voice it is followed by David Lang’s crystalline hymn the
national anthems that, in taking text from 193
Choirs of St Patrick’s & Consolidated National Anthems from around the globe, hopes to
Schools (Antonia Balmer, Lynda in the words of the composer “find common ground
Beekhof Choir Directors) that might allow us to understand each other,
Festival Strings across all our artificial boundaries.”
The concert ends on a joyous homecoming, as
local schoolchildren are joined by three wondrous
Strauss Metamorphosen sopranos (one Iranian, one Celtic, one Indigenous)
and strings in a new commissioned piece called
Lang the national anthems My Mother’s Mother – a work that traces the
(Australian Premiere) migrations that brought each of us here to
Tiba My Mother’s Mother Australia.
(World Premiere*)
MAIN Tara Tiba
BOTTOM LEFT David Lang
BOTTOM RIGHT Jonathan Grieves-Smith
“Hiding in every national
anthem is the recognition
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
that we are insecure
*The commissioning of My Mother’s Mother
was assisted by the Australian Government about our freedoms, that
through the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body. freedom is fragile, and
delicate, and easy to lose.”
- DAVID LANG
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PANDORA’S BOX DATE & TIME
Friday 13th October 8pm
DATE & TIME
Friday 13th October 10pm ALL THE WORLD’S
FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES VENUE VENUE A STAGE
Reardon Theatre Drill Hall
FOLK SONGS FROM AROUND
TICKETS TICKETS THE WORLD
$30 / $24 conc. $25 / $20 conc.
Jen Anderson Violin Kavisha Mazzella AM Guitar & Voice
Andrea Keeble Violin Georgie Darvidis Voice
Ceridwen Davies Viola Tara Tiba Voice
Imogen Manins Cello Iain Grandage Piano
Anderson Live score for Repertoire includes:
‘Pandora’s Box’ Italian and Greek folk songs and
Persian classical works
Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box
is one of silent cinema’s great
masterworks and a testament to star
“Kavisha Mazzella’s
Louise Brooks’ dazzling individuality. music leads us into
Sensationally modern, G.W Pabst’s a world of tattered
1928 film follows the downward troubadours and
spiral of the showgirl Lulu, whose
powers have a devastating effect on star-crossed lovers”
all she comes in contact with.
- MAXWELL RYAN POET
Here performed with an original
score written by much loved
Melbourne musician and composer One of Australia’s most beloved
Jen Anderson, both the film and folk singers and musical historians
Anderson’s score received rave Kavisha Mazzella leads the way in
reviews on their premiere. This this late evening concert of beautiful
digitally restored version will delight folk songs from Italy, Greece, Iran and
both film aficionados and music beyond. Singing stories of travels and
lovers alike, and make a wonderful odes to the moon, the performers
Friday Night out at the Movies. in this concert honour the many
and varied waves of migrants to
Australia’s shores.
“Deliciously haunting Jen Anderson
and atmospheric” TOP Kavisha Mazzell
MIDDLE Georgie Darvidis
- ED ST JOHN, SUNDAY RIGHT Tara Tiba
TELEGRAPH, SYDNEY
10 11
DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 10am Saturday 14th October 10am
VENUE OF FOREIGN VIENNA CONGRESS VENUE
LANDS & PEOPLE
Lecture Hall Reardon Theatre
STREETON TRIO PLAY THE ARCHDUKE
TICKETS TICKETS
$30 / $24 conc. DANIEL DE BORAH IN RECITAL $35 / $28 conc.
“The Streeton
Daniel de Borah Piano Trio provided a
masterclass, with
deeply expressive
Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15
playing rich in
Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16
elegance, intellect
and vitality.”
One of Port Fairy’s favourite performers
continues his exploration of the music - THE AUSTRALIAN
of Schumann with this double bill of
cherished works. Beginning with Of
Foreign Lands and People, a morceau used
famously in the Australian classic film
My Brilliant Career, and also containing
Traumerei, Kinderszenen’s 13 movements STREETON TRIO In this bewitching offering of Schubert and
were described by Schumann himself Beethoven, 2011 Music Viva Chamber Music
Emma Jardine Violin
as “nothing more than delicate hints Competition winners the Streeton Trio present a
Meta Weiss Cello
for execution and interpretation”. Their reflection on the Vienna Congress of 1814/1815.
Benjamin Kopp Piano
simplicity and delicacy is then contrasted This event marked a turning point in the social role
with the monumental Kreisleriana – of music – from being an instrument of awareness
Schumann’s dedication to a character as embodied by the Enlightenment to becoming
created by E.T.A. Hoffmann – the German more a vehicle for conscious escape. Embark
Schubert Sonatensatz in B flat
writer, composer and caricaturist whose “Leading a beautifully major D. 28
on your day of Festival offerings with these fine
stories also inspired Delibes’s Coppelia and musicians - one of Australia’s most successful
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker as well as the
warm lyrical Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat chamber music exports.
opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach. interpretation of the major ‘Archduke’
Mozart concerto,
technically immaculate Benjamin Kopp will lead
a masterclass for Piano
pianist Daniel de Borah… students in the Lecture Hall
gave the material plenty at 11.30am Saturday.
See p.36 for details
of colour and feeling”
- ADELAIDE ADVERTISER,
CONCERT WITH ASO, JUNE 2017
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DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 11.30am Saturday 14th October 11:30am
CELTIC JOURNEYS VENUE
BRAHMS SEXTET VENUE
St John’s Church Reardon Theatre
CELTIC FIDDLING MEETS BAROQUE WITH MEMBERS OF THE
AUSTRALIAN OCTET
TICKETS TICKETS
$30 / $24 conc. $35 / $28 conc.
MEMBERS OF THE
AUSTRALIAN OCTET
William Hennessy Violin
“… the mix of baroque, traditional Madeleine Jevons Violin
and contemporary music was Keith Crellin Viola
Merewyn Bramble Viola
wisely blended, and the audience Rohan de Korte Cello
thoroughly appreciated the Josephine Vains Cello
performance…”
- OUEST FRANCE NEWSPAPER
Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in Bb
EVERGREEN ENSEMBLE Australia’s only dedicated Scottish baroque Join William Hennessy and a
band Evergreen Ensemble present a high- bespoke group of Melbourne
Shane Lestideau Baroque Violin & Direction Chamber Orchestra musicians for
energy program of music from across the Celtic
Anna Webb Baroque Viola a rare and wonderful treat – the
diaspora. ‘Twas a time and place when soulful
Rachel Johnston Cello youthful and deeply sonorous
airs and merry jigs were heard alongside the
Miranda Hill Contrabass String Sextet No. 1 of Brahms. The
latest compositions by Purcell, Correlli and
Samantha Cohen Theorbo “… lingering over expressive rich counterpoint and rhythmic
Vivaldi. Tap your feet on a journey through
Matthew Horsley Uillean pipes inventiveness so characteristic of
driving traditional jigs ‘n’ reels of the British details and pouring into
Isles as well as their Norse and Appalachian this most German of composers
close relatives in this delightful meeting of secondary passages the is on full display in this work,
classical and folk music including a world maturity and sensitivity and this performance by some
Repertoire includes: of Melbourne’s finest chamber
premiere work by Alice Chance that inspects
Norwegian, Irish, Scottish,
Port Fairy’s own Celtic connection. of a lifetime’s musical musicians is sure to enrich your
Appalachian Folk songs Festival experience.
endeavour.”
- THE AUSTRALIAN ON WILLIAM
HENNESSY WITH THE MCO
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DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 12:45pm Saturday 14th October 2pm
LUNCH WITH Sunday 15th October 12:45pm
PIANO LESSONS VENUE
TARYN FIEBIG VENUE
Drill Hall A THEATRICAL JOURNEY OF
SELF DISCOVERY
Reardon Theatre
TICKETS
STAR OF OPERA AND MUSIC TICKETS $40 / $32 conc.
THEATRE SINGS HER $35 (including lunch)
PERSONAL HISTORY **NOTE – Double length concert,
duration approx 2 hours 20 mins
including 20 minute interval,
finishing 4.20pm **
Taryn Fiebig Voice & Cello
Iain Grandage Piano
Arditi Baci
Michael Futcher Director
Handel Credete al mio dolore Anna Goldsworthy Performer
from ‘Alcina’ Helen Howard Performer
Mozart Ach, Ich Fül’s from “… I have never seen “a musical journey
‘The Magic Flute’ somebody play made in heaven…
Puccini Musetta’s Waltz from the cello and sing pure enchantment” Repertoire includes:
‘La Boheme’
so divinely at the Chopin Nocturne in D-flat major
Lehár Vilja-Lied from - COURIER MAIL Mozart Sonata in C, KV545
same time. It’s not Bach Invention No. 8 in F
‘The Merry Widow’
fair really. It was a Schubert Impromptu in A-flat major
Lerner/Lowe I Could Have Liszt after Verdi Rigoletto Paraphrase
Danced All Night from most astonishing Bach Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major
‘My Fair Lady’ performance.” Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 ‘Waldstein’
Khachaturian Piano Concerto in D flat
-H
RH PRINCE CHARLES ON
Helpmann Award-winning HEARING TARYN FIEBIG
soprano Taryn Fiebig is one Beloved past Festival Director Anna
of Australia’s most versatile Goldsworthy’s award-winning book, which
and much loved artists, recounts her musical awakening as a young girl,
having appeared regularly struck a deep chord with critics, readers and
with Opera Australia and ACO, music lovers on its 2009 release. Anna herself
Pinchgut and the Australian stars in this stage adaptation, which beautifully
Brandenburg Orchestra. For illustrates the intriguing relationship between
these delightful lunchtime the young pianist and her Russian teacher. Part
offerings, she’ll share stories theatrical production and part concert, it is a
of her heritage, and charm beautiful way for you to re-connect with
you with arias and anecdotes Anna’s artistry.
from her remarkable
international career. Written by Anna Goldsworthy. Originally commissioned &
produced by Qld Music Festival 2011 in association with
QPAC. Produced by Metro Arts
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DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 2pm
TEN POUND POMS VENUE
RUSSIAN
MUSIC OF THE COLLIERY
BANDS OF ENGLAND
Southcombe Park Stadium
ROMANCE
TICKETS
£10 ($17) / $14 conc. SPARKLING VIRTUOSITY
FROM YELIAN HE AND
KRISTIAN CHONG
DAREBIN CITY BRASS – PRESTON BAND
DATE & TIME
Andrew Snell Conductor
Saturday 14th October 2pm
VENUE
Lecture Hall
Fletcher Labour and Love
Holst Moorside Suite TICKETS
$30 / $24 conc.
Howarth Fireworks
Waespi As if a Voice Were in Them
The famed Grimethorpe Colliery Band
was once home for Andrew Snell. Now he
brings his own band - the A-Grade State
Champion Darebin City Brass – Preston
Band to Port Fairy to share some of the
Yelian He Cello
most evocative and stirring music of the
Kristian Chong Piano
English Band tradition. For a bargain £10
($17 at the current exchange rate, Brexit “… a true chamber
disasters not withstanding), you will be musician at work…”
lead through a history of the great English
Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata
Band tradition, in homage to all those - T HE AGE ON KRISTIAN CHONG
in G Minor
English migrants who came to these
shores under the Assisted Migration Glazunov Chant de Menestrel
Scheme of last century. In the ample
spaciousness of the Southcombe Park Kapustin Nearly Waltz
TOP Yelian He
Stadium, the magnificently full sound of BOTTOM Kristian Chong
a top notch Band in full flight will take
you all the way back to that green and Two Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
pleasant land. favourites join forces for this journey
deep into Russian Romanticism. The
“It was the best ten pound “… beautifully lyrical. [He] virtuosity and expressive tenderness
I ever spent!” confirmed his awesome of Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata suits
these mighty performers, as does the
- T EN POUND POM DAVID BAILEY technical skill.” impassioned lyricism of Glazunov’s
Chant de Menestrel. Kapustin’s dryly
- T HE STRAD ON YELIAN HE
humorous Nearly Waltz completes
this program that will sate your
appetite for fine music.
18 19DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Friday 13th October 4pm Saturday 14th October 3:30pm
THE SILK ROAD Saturday 14th October 3:30pm
Sunday 15th October 10am THE AMERICAN VENUE
St John’s Church
AN INTIMATE AND VENUE TINALLEY STRING QUARTET
TRANSCENDENTAL Boldrewood Room, PLAY DVORAK AND BARBER TICKETS
EXPERIENCE Seacombe House $35 / $28 conc.
FROM CHINA
TICKETS
$25 / $20 conc.
“a deeply personal encounter Mindy Meng Wang Guzheng
David Shea Voice, bowls, electronics
with cultural history”
- CHRIS REID, REALTIME 131
Shea Rituals of the Trading Routes:
The Silk Roads and the
Mogau Caves
Be entranced by two arresting
performers as they render the rich
cultural and spiritual history of the Silk
Road and MoGau caves. Mindy Meng
Wang grew up in the Gansu province
of China between Tibet and Mongolia
- at the end of the ancient trading
routes that connected China to the
Middle East and into Greek and Roman
civilisations. On three occasions “The hottest ensemble TINALLEY STRING QUARTET
over the weekend, in the intimate in town.” Adam Chalabi Violin 1
surrounds of Seacombe House, you will Lerida Delbridge Violin 2
be able to observe at close quarters Justin Williams Viola
- THE AGE
her performance on the guzheng - a Michelle Wood Cello
2500 year-old Chinese zither. In this
collaboration with composer David In one of the most famous migrations
Shea, they combine to immerse you of individual compositional creativity,
within a ritualized tribute to the lasting Dvorak’s visit to the United States Dvorak String Quartet
influence of the Silk Road on the in the 1890s produced not only No. 12 ‘American’
modern world. the New World Symphony and the
Cello Concerto, but also the buoyant Barber Adagio from String
‘American’ String Quartet. In the first of Quartet Op.11
two concerts that span the US:USSR
divide, the splendid Tinalley String
Quartet bring us this masterwork of
optimistic folkloric reinvention, and
match it with a home-grown American
classic in Barber’s Adagio, here heard
in its original version for String Quartet.
20 21DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 5:15pm Saturday 14th October 5:15pm
ACROSS VENUE PROVENANCE VENUE
THE WATER Drill Hall
VINCE JONES AND PAUL
GRABOWSKY
Reardon Theatre
TICKETS TICKETS
WITH STEVE REICH’S $30 / $24 conc. $30 / $24 conc.
DIFFERENT TRAINS
“A person who doesn’t Vince Jones Voice & Trumpet
Paul Grabowsky Piano
create is like a cloud that
never rains.”
“There’s just a handful of
Songs from their new
living composers who can - VINCE JONES album ‘Provenance’
legitimately claim to have
altered the direction of
musical history and Steve
Reich is one of them,”
- THE GUARDIAN
Natasha Conrau Violin Between 1939 and 1942, as a little boy,
Amy Brookman Violin Steve Reich had to travel back and forth
Merewyn Bramble Viola between New York and Los Angeles -
Stephanie Arnold Cello between divorced parents. Many years later,
he realised that he would have travelled on
other trains to other destinations, had he, as
a Jew, lived in Europe in the same period. Join two legends of Australian music –
Davidson Across the Water platinum-selling singer Vince Jones and
This is the central thrust of Different
Reich Different Trains multi-ARIA-winning pianist Paul Grabowsky
Trains – Steve Reich’s brilliant work built on
as they return to their roots with their new
the technique of speech melody - pairing
album ‘Provenance’.
recorded speech alongside its
musical equivalent. The album marks a renewed collaboration
between the pair after several decades
In creating Across the Water, Robert
apart, but the album title also describes the
Davidson used the same technique, and
music the duo chose to record - ballads that
utilized Stephanie Arnold’s first-hand
showcase the essential elements of their
interviews with Melbourne-based asylum
craft. Far from diminishing them, time has
seekers who shared with her stories of their
distilled their skills into a rich and deeply
journeys and arrival in Australia. LEFT Vince Jones
rewarding blend of music-making that simply
This promises to be a deeply compelling and shouldn’t be missed. RIGHT Paul Grabowsky
moving performance.
22 23KAWAI SATURDAY “Australian music- DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 8:15 pm
making at truly a world
GALA: FOUR level.” VENUE
LAST SONGS
Reardon Theatre
- LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE TICKETS
TINALLEY AND FRIENDS PLAY $47 / $38 conc.
SHOSTAKOVICH AND STRAUSS
Two composers’ deeply personal TINALLEY STRING QUARTET
utterances are brought together in this
Adam Chalabi Violin 1
Gala of 20th Century Masterworks.
Lerida Delbridge Violin 2
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, much
Justin Williams Viola
loved since its premiere in 1940 where
Michelle Wood Cello
the composer himself played piano, is
preceded by his 8th String Quartet - the Taryn Fiebig Voice
centerpiece of his 15 quartet oevre. Daniel de Borah Piano
Dedicated “to the victims of fascism and
war”, the quartet was written in just three
days, and the personal nature of the
Shostakovich 8th String Quartet
work’s emotional landscape is revealed
Op. 110
through the repeated use of DSCH - his
musical signature. Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op.57 LEFT Taryn Fiebig
MAIN Tinalley String Quartet
The concert ends with Richard Strauss’ Strauss Four Last Songs Op. posth. BOTTOM Daniel de Borah
exquisite and personally reconciled
meditation on death, Four Last
Songs, heard here in an intimate new
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
arrangement by Festival Director
Humanity Foundation
Iain Grandage.
24 25DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Saturday 14th October 8.15 pm Saturday 14th October 10pm
KATE VENUE LATE NIGHT SWING VENUE
MILLER-
Southcombe Park Stadium Drill Hall
THE FURBELOWS SING CLOSE
HARMONY STANDARDS
HEIDKE
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SINGING SENSATION
Kate Miller-Heidke Voice & Piano “The finest vocals in Kelsey James Voice
Keir Nuttall Guitars Miriam Crellin Voice
Australian music.”
Jessica Hitchcock Voice Georgie Darvidis Voice
Zoë Black Violin Sam O’Halloran Guitar
- THE BORDER MAIL
Madeleine Jevons Violin Jon Delaney Guitar
Ceridwen Davies Viola Mark Elton Double Bass
Rachel Johnston Cello
Dan Witton Bass
David Jones Percussion
Standards including:
Get Happy
Favourite Hits, incl. O,Vertigo,
Last Day on Earth, and works Mr Sandman
from The Rabbits Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
The Glow-Worm
Kate Miller-Heidke’s
monumental voice will be on
full display for one night only,
as she effortlessly switches
between the hymnal-quiet
hushes and operatic, glass- “Forget your troubles, Dance the night away These divergent styles
with The Furbelows - a share a common heritage
breaking siren calls of her come on get happy, combination of three-part in the turbulent years
favourite hits. Here for the first
time with all-new string quartet you better chase all close-harmony vocals and of the mid 20th Century,
the hot swinging acoustic lifting audiences above
arrangements from Festival your cares away…” guitars of wartime Paris. their troubles and
Director Iain Grandage, she’ll
allowing them to escape
also perform excerpts from her
- FROM ‘GET HAPPY!’ They embody the intricate into a world of bohemian
multi-Helpmann Award winning
JUDY GARLAND vocal bands of the 1930s decadence and
adaption of the Shaun Tan/John
such as The Mills Brothers, highbrow sophistication.
Marsden book ‘The Rabbits’,
The Andrews and Boswell
which she created for Opera
Sisters, and the fiery guitar They’re joyful, exuberant,
Australia and International Arts
work of the French gypsy and not to be missed.
Festivals around the country,
virtuoso Django Reinhardt.
and which was received with
such acclaim by all who saw it.
26 27DATE & TIME
Sunday 15th October 10am
STRADIVARIUS VENUE
Reardon Theatre
ALEXANDRE DA COSTA AND
ANNA SLEPTSOVA IN RECITAL TICKETS
$35 / $28 conc.
Alexandre Da Costa Violin
Anna Sleptsova Piano
SUPPORTERS OF THE FESTIVAL HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE
Vitali Chaconne
THEIR INVOLVEMENT BY BECOMING
FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL . Brahms Violin Sonata No.3
Tchaikovsky Lensky’s Air
The Friends make an important contribution to
the celebratory atmosphere of the Festival weekend Sarasate Gypsy Airs
and to the economic stability of the organisation.
We encourage existing Friends to extend the network
by introducing new Friends to the Festival.
Winner of the 2012 Juno Award,
famed Canadian violinist Alexandre
Become a Friend of the Festival The annual subscription is $40 per person Da Costa and pianist Anna Sleptsova
by contacting us, or via our website:
or $60 per couple and entitles you to: will thrill you with a morning of
exquisite musicianship and dazzling
• Advance notice of program
technical brilliance. Playing
PORT FAIRY SPRING • Advance and priority booking of tickets a Stradivarius of 1701, Alex has
MUSIC FESTIVAL performed in the great halls of the
• Vocal Lines newsletter
world - from Vienna’s Musikverein to
A. PO Box 53, Port Fairy VIC 3284 • Invitation to the launch of the Festival Berlin’s Philharmonie to New York’s
Ph. (03) 5568 3030 Program in Melbourne Carnegie Hall. Fearlessly tackling the
E. contact@portfairyspringfest.com.au most formidable repertoire for his
W. portfairyspringfest.com.au • Invitation to the Opening Reception instrument, he and Anna will take you
of the Festival in Port Fairy on a mercurial journey infused with
deep Gypsy spirit.
TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
The Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Inc Public Fund is listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations under Subdivision
30-F of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Donations over $2 to the Festival’s public fund are tax deductible.
“I was delighted: what a violinist, beauty of sound,
These donations are greatly appreciated, carefully managed and promptly acknowledged and receipted.
For further information about making tax deductible donations, please contact the Festival office on (03) 5568 3030
fastest fingers I have heard yet, the good taste to
or by email: contact@portfairyspringfest.com.au or download application forms at portfairyspringfest.com.au play different styles and great humor. Chapeau! ”
- LEON SPIERER, BERLIN PHILHARMONIC CONCERTMASTER 1963-1993
28 29DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Sunday 15th October 10am Sunday 15th October 11:30am
CELLO ALONE VENUE QUARTET AND VENUE
YELIAN HE AND META WEISS
Lecture Hall
COUNTRY Reardon Theatre
TICKETS TICKETS
$30 / $24 conc. ASQ PLAYS PIGRAM, $35 / $28 conc.
STANHOPE AND BEETHOVEN
Yelian He Cello
Meta Weiss Cello
Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C
Lutoslawski Sacher Variation
Cassado Cello suite
Henryson Black Run
Start your Sunday morning Festival
experience with two of the finest
cellists in the country playing
repertoire for solo cello from across
the centuries. Winner of the Grand
Prize and Audience Prize at the
inaugural 2014 Australian Cello
“Country’s in my veins.
Awards competition in Sydney, With blood I write my name,
Yelian He returns to Port Fairy with
I’ll sing a song to say
two virtuosic offerings. Before this, The Australian String Quartet continues
multiple award-winning American its much loved ‘Quartet and Country’
what I can see.”
expatriate cellist Meta Weiss treats project – one that seeks to find common
us to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3 in ground between Western Art Music and the - STEPHEN PIGRAM (FROM ‘MIMI’)
C and a gem of a miniature from Songlines of this country. Stephen Pigram’s
Lutoslawski. The two inimitable new work explores his relationship to his
performers may even join for a final Grandmother’s country (‘Buru’ in Yawuru AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
duet should the morning stars align! language), and the multi-cultural influences
Dale Barltrop Violin 1
of his hometown of Broome. Paul Stanhope’s
“[his] performance Francesca Hiew Violin 2
exquisite Quartet No. 2 is his personal
Stephen King Viola
truly sparkled, Yelian response to the journey of Jewish refugees
Sharon Grigoryan Cello
fleeing persecution in Western Europe,
He showed he was a with the concert ending with Beethoven’s Stephen Pigram Guitar & Voice
“Boundless enthusiasm…
consummate master beautiful early Op 18 No. 4 Quartet in C minor.
uncompromising virtuosity.”
of the bow.” *Stephen Pigram’s New Work was commissioned for the
Port Fairy Spring Music Festival by the UKARIA Foundation. Pigram New Work (World Premiere*)
- JOSEPH NEWSOME, VOIX
- THE STRAD DES ARTS ON META WEISS
Stanhope String Quartet No. 2
PROUDLY
SUPPORTED Beethoven String Quartet
BY: Op. 18 No. 4
30 31DATE & TIME
EAST Sunday 15th October 11:30am
DATE & TIME
Sunday 15th October 11:30 am LITTLE MATCH
MEETS VENUE
Lecture Hall
VENUE GIRL PASSION
WEST
St John’s Church
TICKETS
HALLELUJAH JUNCTION
$30 / $24 conc.
TICKETS PERFORM THE PULITZER
MATCHED $35 / $28 conc. PRIZE-WINNING MASTERPIECE
MASTERWORKS
FROM YIYUN GU
Hallelujah Junction
Jonathan Grieves-Smith Conductor
Yiyun Gu Piano
Lang The Little Match Girl Passion
Mo Fan Tiger Spring
David Lang takes Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Tan Dun Ancient Burial as a model for this serenely refined setting
of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy-tale,
Liszt The Funeral Gondola
replacing Jesus with the tragic little girl
Tan Dun Missing Moon to, as Lang puts it, “elevate her sorrow to a
higher plane”. Like all Passions, it tells its
Debussy The Moon Sets story while simultaneously commenting on
Over the Ancient Temple it - asking us to inspect our own relationship
Mo Fan Fishing Wandering with a compassionate society.
at Flower Harbor This work is performed by Australia’s
Debussy Goldfish pre-eminent professional choir Hallelujah
Junction, lead by one of Australia’s
Piazzolla Tango No.2 from finest choral conductors Jonathan
Tango Suite Grieves-Smith. This will be a world-class
Gao Ping Dance Fury—Homage to choral performance.
Astor Piazzolla
East Meets West is a bespoke “My religion is music. “an outstanding interpreter
program created for this year’s
Festival that combines and It’s the only belief in of music from both the 18th
compares piano works by both which I can embrace century and our own.”
western and contemporary Chinese
composers. Each one of the themes the beauty of all
- CLIVE PAGET, LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
– Spring, Funeral, Moon, Fish and other cultures.” ON JONATHAN GRIEVES-SMITH
Tango - has two contrasting pieces
inspired by a similar subject. Be - TAN DUN
beguiled by these reflections from
across the East/West divide.
32 33DATE & TIME DATE & TIME
Sunday 15th October 2pm Sunday 15th October 2pm
STALIN’S VENUE VENUE
SCHUBERT
PIANO Drill Hall Reardon Theatre
QUINTET
TICKETS TICKETS
HISTORIES BROUGHT TO LIFE $30 / $24 conc. $35 / $28 conc. ASQ JOINED BY LOU
THROUGH SPEECH-SONG BENNET T AND
META WEISS
Sonya Lifschitz Piano
Davidson Stalin’s
Piano
“When I speak in Lou Bennett Voice
Meta Weiss Cello
my language it
Weaving together virtuoso piano music, the AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
recorded voices of iconic, creative and political tastes like honey,
Dale Barltrop Violin 1
figures, video and the speaking voice of pianist it feels good” Francesca Hiew Violin 2
Sonya Lifschitz, this new composition by
Robert Davidson was a hit at its premiere in Stephen King Viola
- LOU BENNET T Sharon Grigoryan Cello
Canberra earlier this year. It is a devastating
and captivating exploration of the big themes
of modern history featuring vignettes of 19
historical figures. This is a concert of beginnings and endings, of first and
last utterances, of rebirth and renewal. Yorta Yorta / Dja Bennett Resting Amongst the
At the centre of the work is Maria Yudina, Stalin’s Dja Wurrung woman Lou Bennett, much loved member of Treetops (World Premiere*)
favourite pianist – a strident and remarkably Tiddas, writes a story of ancient cultural practices that will
resilient critic of the Soviet regime, whose Schubert Cello Quintet in C D.956
recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 –
“A captivating… leave you deeply moved and looking upon our world anew.
And what better way to answer her ‘Quartet and Country’
apparently made in haste in the middle of the interplay between offering than with that most titanic of works, Schubert’s
*Resting Amongst the Treetops was
night – was on the dictator’s record player as commissioned for the Port Fairy Spring
he died.
piano and the voices Cello Quintet. The ASQ are joined by Juilliard alumnus Meta Music Festival by the UKARIA Foundation.
Weiss for this masterwork from the end of Schubert’s life -
of history. ” thus easing us towards the end of the Festival.
Ukranian pianist Sonya Lifschitz is mesmerizing
in this manifestation of living history. PROUDLY
- ANGUS MCPHERSON IN TOP Australian String Quartet SUPPORTED
LIMELIGHT MIDDLE Lou Bennett BY:
34 35SCHOOLS CONCERT CLOSING EVENT:
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY DATE & TIME
Sunday 15th October 3:30pm
& MASTERCLASS ALL ONE VENUE
MONGREL BREED Southcombe Park Stadium
TICKETS
SONGS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA $30 / $24 conc.
SCHOOLS CONCERT: MUSIC IN THE MOVIES
DATE & TIME Jen Anderson Quartet (See p.10 for more details of band)
Friday 13th October
11:30am & 1:30pm Join acclaimed Australian violinist Jen Anderson and
her string quartet as they explain the process of creating
VENUE Reardon Theatre a film score to a silent film. Utilizing examples from a
in Cinema mode variety of sources, they will illuminate not only the stages
of the creative process, but also explain the various tricks “on our way to
FREE EVENT and techniques used by film composers to maximize an a Bran Nue
audience’s experience of a movie.
Dae, ev’rybody
ev’rybody say”
KAWAI POP-UP RECITAL HUB - JIMMY CHI
DATE & TIME Once again, we invite you, our audience, Festival artists
Saturday 14th & and masterclass participants to present your own
Sunday 15th October recital as part of the Kawai Pop-up Recital Hub. Prepare
9am - 4pm 20 minutes or less of music of your choice, and enjoy
performing it on a superb Kawai grand piano. This relaxed
VENUE The Hub and informal café setting allows your friends and festival
guests to enjoy a cup of coffee as you serenade them, and
FREE EVENT Stephen Pigram Guitar & Voice “… we’re all one mongrel breed…”
please enjoy a coffee on the house yourselves. Sign-up
Lou Bennett Voice With one small turn of phrase,
sheets will be available at the venue. For pre-bookings of
Kavisha Mazzella Choir Director, Voice Jimmy Chi’s subversive joy
sessions, please phone the Festival office.
welcomes us all into his vision
Choirs of St Patrick’s & Consolidated Schools
for Australia, and reminds us
(Antonia Balmer, Lynda Beekhof Choir Directors)
collectively that the things which
Port Fairy Community Choir
connect us far outweigh those
Spring Festival Strings
KAWAI PIANO MASTERCLASS that divide us. This concert of
Featured Artists to be announced on the website choir-centred songs ranging
from Italian migrant tunes lead
DATE & TIME Acclaimed pianist Benjamin Kopp presents a piano
by Kavisha Mazzella to the hymns
Saturday 14th October masterclass for local piano students in a relaxed and
Choral-featured songs from across this country of the late, great Jimmy Chi will
11:30pm friendly setting. Festival visitors and friends welcome.
be a joyous finale to our Festival
VENUE Lecture Hall Limited places, and booking essential. Please contact of Migrations. Join us as choirs of
Rosie Merrin at rmerrin@icloud.com Port Fairy locals are lead by a range
FREE EVENT of Festival artists through songs
of roving and remembrance, as we
embark on our own journeys home.
36 37THANK YOU
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE FESTIVAL ADMIN
GENEROUS SUPPORT OF
OUR SPONSORS & DONORS + CREDITS & IMPORTANT INFO
FESTIVAL BOARD SET CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM DESIGN
Penny Hutchinson Scenic Studios Cassette Agency
Chair cassette.com.au
PATRON
(03) 9938 6666
Iain Grandage
Artistic Director Lauris Elms AM, OBE
PLEASE NOTE
Christopher Thompson All details are correct at the time
FESTIVAL DETAILS
Treasurer of printing. Performers, works
Port Fairy Spring Music and venues are subject to change
WILLIAM ISOBEL & DAVID JONES Alison Lansley Festival Inc without notice.
FORREST AM FAMILY FOUNDATION Secretary A0021392G
Dawn Holland ABN 51 392 754 636
PO Box 53 Port Fairy, BOOKING & TICKETS
Production Manager
Victoria, Australia 3284 Peter Strickland
Barry Levinson Ticketing Coordinator
Venue Manager Phone (03) 5568 3030 PO Box 6089
Graham Evans AO Email contact@ Caulfield South, Victoria 3162
Gavin Franklin portfairyspringfest.com.au Tel: (03) 9571 7391
Joanne Levey Web portfairyspringfest.com.au
William Moore ACCOMMODATION ENQUIRIES
DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE ($10 K+) Michael and Susie Hamson John and Jo Grigg Joy Potter
Annamila Pty Ltd MAILING LIST Port Fairy & Region
Peter Jopling and Ross and Anna Hicks Peter Strickland
William Forrest AM Samuel Mandeng Jennifer Whitehead If you would like to be placed on Visitor Information Centre
Neil and Clare Kearney
Isobel and David Jones Family Christopher and Marjery Renwick the mailing list for information, Bank Street Port Fairy,
Foundation Richard and Angela Kirsner please call the Festival office on Victoria 3284
Humanity Foundation Eda Ritchie AM Peter Kolliner OAM and Barbara ADMINISTRATOR (03) 5568 3030, write to the Port Tel: (03) 5568 2682
Michael and Silvia Kantor Voi Williams OAM Kolliner Emma Moloney Fairy Spring Music Festival, PO
Box 53, Port Fairy, Victoria 3284 Fax: (03) 5568 2833
Ukaria Foundation Anonymous 1 June Marks
or send an email to contact@ Email: vic@moyne.vic.gov.au
Patricia McKenzie SET DESIGN portfairyspringfest.com.au moyne.vic.gov.au
FESTIVAL BENEFACTOR ($ 2K+) David and Barbara Mushin Paul Kathner OAM
Prue Brown ENSEMBLE PATRON ($100+) Tony and Joy Roberts Wen Shobbrook
Sidney Myer Fund Margaret Baulch Sharon and Geoffrey Wallace
Laini Liberman and Ben Rozenes Alistair and Sue Campbell John and Susan Warburton
Berry Liberman Stephen and Jenny Charles Anonymous 2
Hugh and Cherry Collins
CONCERT PATRON ($ 500+) John and Mandy Collins With thanks also to many others
Anne and Graham Evans AO Lynne Conway
Fleur Gibbs Don and Mary Glue
Lesley Griffin
NEXT YEAR
*List correct at time of printing
Refer to our website for regular
updates of this list The Port Fairy Spring Music Festival next
year will be held over the weekend of the
12-14th October 2018.
For updates about the Festival during
the year, please visit the website
portfairyspringfest.com.au
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2017 BOOKING FORM NAME
Choose your concerts. Most are 1 hour or
HOW TO BOOK
less except as noted
CONCERT TICKETS FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2017
No. of Tickets
Full Price
No. of Tickets
Concession AMOUNT
1 4pm The Silk Road (Friday) x $25 x $20 =$
PORTFAIRYSPRINGFEST.COM. AU
2 8pm NAB Opening Gala Concert: x $47 x $38 =$
For All Nations (1 ½ hrs)
3 8pm Pandora’s Box (1 ½ hrs) x $30 x $24 =$
Choose as many concerts as you wish 4 10pm All The World’s a Stage x $25 x $20 =$
and submit your order either by mail,
online or by phone. BOOK ONLINE SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017
Most concerts last about an hour and venues are For online bookings go to
portfairyspringfest.com.au
5 10am Vienna Congress x $35 x $28 =$
relatively close so there is time to get from one to another
at the next scheduled time. However, please note that and follow the prompts. 6 10am Of Foreign Lands and People x $30 x $24 =$
Piano Lessons is a double length event with an interval at 7 11:30am Brahms Sextet x $35 x $28 =$
about 3:30pm and finishing at about 4:20pm.
8 11:30am Celtic Journeys x $30 x $24 =$
There are no booking fees or credit card charges to add to
your order. There is a priority booking period for current 9 12:45pm Saturday Lunch: Taryn Feibig x $35 no conc. =$
Friends of the Festival from 1st August to 13th August.
10 2pm Piano Lessons (2 ¼ hrs) x $40 x $32 =$
Tickets will be on general sale from 14th August. You can BY MAIL
add a Friends membership payment to your order if you To book by mail, complete 11 2pm Russian Romance x $30 x $24 =$
are not yet a member and want the priority both sides of the attached 12 2pm Ten Pound Poms x $17 x $14 =$
booking benefit. form and post it with your
cheque or credit card 13 3:30pm The American x $35 x $28 =$
Some concerts book out early, especially in smaller venues.
If a concert is sold out ahead of your order, your name is details to: 14 3:30pm The Silk Road (Saturday) x $25 x $20 =$
added to a waiting list. We will endeavour to contact you if Peter Strickland 15 5:15pm Jazz at 5: Provenance x $30 x $24 =$
tickets become available, although the Festival normally PFSMF Ticketing
receives few returns. PO Box 6089 Caulfield South, 16 5:15pm Across the Water x $30 x $24 =$
For online orders you will receive e-tickets by email. Please Victoria 3162 17 8:15pm Kawai Saturday Night Gala: x $47 x $38 =$
print these and bring them to the Festival. Tickets booked Four Last Songs (1 ½ hrs)
by phone or mail will be posted to you or, for orders received
after 6th October, held for collection at the Festival Box 18 8:15pm Kate Miller-Heidke (1 ½ hrs) x $47 x $38 =$
Office in Bank Street during the Festival. Please allow 3-5 19 10pm Late Night Swing x $25 x $20 =$
weeks for ticket delivery.
Concession prices are available to persons under 40 years
of age and to holders of government pension cards such as
BY PHONE SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2017
Aged, Disability, Carer, Newstart, TPI and Supporting Parent. (03) 9571 7391 20 10am Stradivarius x $35 x $28 =$
Seniors cards, Health Care cards or Veterans gold or white Please have details of the
treatment cards do not qualify for concession tickets. concerts you want to 21 10am Cello Alone x $30 x $24 =$
We do not take pre-Festival bookings after Wednesday 11th attend and your credit 22 10am The Silk Road (Sunday) x $25 x $20 =$
October. After that date you can only buy tickets in person card and concession
details ready. 23 11:30am Quartet and Country x $35 x $28 =$
at the Box Office which will be open from 1pm on Friday
13th October. 24 11:30am Little Match Girl Passion x $35 x $28 =$
25 11:30am East Meets West x $30 x $24 =$
REFUNDS: If you cannot attend the Festival you
must return your unwanted tickets to PO Box 26 12:45pm Sunday Lunch: Taryn Feibig x $35 no conc. =$
6089 Caulfield South 3162 before Wednesday 27 2pm Schubert Quintet x $35 x $28 =$
5th October 2017. A refund equal to the value
of tickets returned will be paid to you after the 28 2pm Stalin’s Piano x $30 x $24 =$
Festival. NO REFUNDS WILL BE PAID FOR TICKETS 29 3:30pm All One Mongrel Breed x $30 x $24 =$
RETURNED AFTER THAT DATE. Tickets to cancelled
performances will be fully refunded if no substitute TOTAL =$
concert is scheduled for the same time as the (Please copy this amount to the other side of this form.)
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