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Springtime Out and About

Concert

A golden, sunny day marked
the perfect setting for this
year’s Springtime Concert,
featuring our Kenneth Moore
Memorial Music Scholar Prof. Anna Goldsworthy, with her
piano duo partner, Prof. Nicholas Mathew, Professor of
Music at UC Berkeley.

Principal Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan introduced herself
and the Concert, also highlighting the presence of the JCH
trio of leading writers – Anna Goldsworthy, Helen Garner
(1961) and Alice Pung OAM. Anna added her own thanks,
emphasising how special it always is for her to perform
in College because of her strong connection with our
community, having spent so much of her life here.
The chosen theme of the Concert was Mozart’s friends and
relations, explained throughout by Prof. Mathew’s charming
anecdotes and information. Nicholas noted that there was
a time when playing the piano together granted the rare Mid-walking tour pit-stop
opportunity for men and women to be physically proximate!
Anna and Nicholas showed the versatility of playing the As part of July’s NAIDOC week celebrations JCH took part in
traditional and reversed seating roles, as well as teacher and a cultural walking tour of the surrounding streets in Fitzroy,
student, in Hummel’s Rondo from Divertimento Op. 51. using the First Nations digital storytelling geo-location
app, Yalinguth (or ‘Yesterday’ in the Woi Wurrung language).
Mozart’s Sonata for Piano Four Hands in C major, KV 521
began with an endearing false start, which added to the Walking along with headphones, we heard first-hand stories,
charm and gave the friendly and social feeling of chamber songs and poems from Elders and leaders (including Kutcha
music. The opening piece was an arrangement of Mozart’s Edwards, Alma Thorpe and the late Archie Roach) who
Overture to Die Zauberflöte. Nicholas observed that this paved the way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights
was probably how most people originally heard the opera, in Victoria. The powerful app comes highly recommended,
within their homes rather than on stage. even in the heavy rain!

The Concert was a great success, and the audience enjoyed The resident tutor team was also fortunate to join Alice
an intimate and spirited performance. Chair of Council, Pung OAM for the debut season at the Melbourne
Clare Pullar, summarised it well in her speech of thanks, Theatre Company of Laurinda, a critically acclaimed play
using the adjectives ‘broad, joyful, and playful’. Finishing adapted from Alice’s book of the same name. Featuring
with much applause, thanks, and gifts of appreciation, a stellar cast of actors with Vietnamese backgrounds, the
Ms Pullar then directed us to ‘continued fellowship and play explores the tensions between class, racism and peer
fun with afternoon tea’. Students and guests enjoyed the relationships in high school (and beyond) with great wit and
further delight of the company of Anna and Nicholas who many heartfelt moments.
generously remained, answering many questions and
participating in lively conversations. Briana Ellis
Dean of Studies
Joshua McLeod
Resident Tutor A ‘sticky note’ wall of advice Laurinda theatre patrons
would give to their younger selves.

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