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The cool dark sounds of 175 East will ring out of Hopetoun Alpha once more when the contemporary music ensemble opens its 2007 season this Sunday. The two guests from across the Tasman - clarinet and sax man Richard Haynes and pianist Mark Knoop - are both ace players; the composers featured are the usual line-up of big international names (Feldman, Finnissy and Rihm) and the local (Dadson, Cresswell, Harris and Gardner).
Ross Harris' The Sleep of Reason, inspired by the anti-war art of the great Goya, gives the concert its title, and Harris' colleagues echo his sentiments. Lyell Cresswell's Lacrimae was written for Vedran Smailovic, the Sarajevo cellist who braved the Serbian siege of his city in 1991, and in Phil Dadson's Peace Rites, the six musicians will bring the composer's ethereal, graphic scores to vibrant life.
175 East: The Sleep of Reason, Hopetoun Alpha, Sunday 7.30pm
