Saturday, September 19, 2009

Pecan Summer

  

I had a pleasant interlude on Friday before the mid-semester break. (Sorry, I’m slipping into bloggese.) Deborah Cheetham and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development held their Spring Recital. The Joan Hammond Recital Room at the VCA was full to capacity; Aboriginal and Settler opera singers performed classic arias and excerpts from Ms Cheetham’s  opera Pecan Summer for an appreciative audience. Pecan Summer intertwines Deborah Cheetham’s personal history with communal history and gives meaning and profundity to that banal term ‘shared history’. The excerpts we heard were superb. Pecan Summer will premier next year and the production has auditioned for the 2010 Melbourne Festival.

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