“My grandparents lived with permits and curfews for decades under the tyranny of the Aboriginal Protection Board…I wrote an opera about it, but it was not until I experienced a taste of the deprivation they lived with that I truly understood. All I can do is respond in music.” – Deborah Cheetham AO, composer
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Patrick Suthers
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Kirsten Williams and Susanne Powell opened the performance with Clara Schumann’s yearning first Romance for violin and piano, with sunlight streaming through the windows of Canberra’s historic Albert Hall.