Our Duty To CarE: WORLDS COLLIDE - ROBERT McINTYRE
WITH BRIDGETTE KELSEY, ISABEL HEDE, STEPHANIE ARNOLD & GEORGINA LEWIS

SATURDAY 3RD FEBRUARY, 8PM
TICKETS $30 | CONCESSION $20

Our Duty to Care is a cross-disciplinary, classical-crossover concert of Australian and Icelandic music. It features music of Olafur Arnalds and Melbourne composers of namely Robert McIntyre, as well as Laura Abraham, Sam Williams, Caerwen Martin and Stuart Greenbaum – with themes relating to climate change, society, onus, empathy, loss, and hope.

The concert features and is titled after Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care (text by Savanna Wegman) – a cross-disciplinary work for voice and piano trio based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560 – a groundbreaking environmental law case which legally proved climate change real in the Courts, with all scientific evidence submitted by either side uncontested. While the case has since been appealed of its duty of care on governmental ministers to preserve future generations from a climate crisis, it has created ripples worldwide, and now also serves as a catalyst for legislative action here in our very own country: the Duty of Care Bill by ACT Senator David Pocock and climate activist Anjali Sharma.

This curation comes with powerful messages but also aims to provide an emotive comfortability and vulnerability when reflecting on climate change, inaction and action. This blend of genres between post-minimalism, chamber music, classical crossover and art song, will highlight audience accessibility through a unique perspective, so that anyone can come, contemplate, and then leave feeling impacted in their own nuanced way.

PROGRAM

Olafur ARNALDS and Nanna (arr. Sam WILLIAMS) Particles (whole ensemble)

Laura ABRAHAM Tomorrow, and years away (cello and piano)

Robert MCINTYRE See through me (violin, cello, piano)

Olafur ARNALDS and Josin (arr. Sam WILLIAMS) The Bottom Line (whole ensemble)

Stuart GREENBAUM Equator Loops (solo piano)

Caerwen MARTIN Ione in the Skye (solo violin)

Robert MCINTYRE A Sea Spray of Ash (soprano and sustained piano)

Sam WILLIAMS Lunar (violin and piano)

Robert MCINTYRE Our Duty to Care (whole ensemble)

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