Yurong St
Darlinghurst NSW
Australia
Acacia Quartet performs the world-premiere of “Mark and Adrian are her sons” from Lyle Chan’s unique string quartet memoir.
HALCYON AND ACACIA QUARTET MAKE NEW MUSIC TOGETHER
7.30pm Friday 31 August 2012
The New Hall, Sydney Grammar School
Tickets: $35/$25
Bookings: City Recital Hall Box Office or call (02) 8256 2222 or 1300 797 118
From the media release:
Lyle Chan’s string quartet Mark and Adrian are her sons is a response to death, not sudden, but after a long illness. It was sketched while the composer was an AIDS activist with the Sydney group ACT UP. In 1991, they publicly confronted Member of Parliament Franca Arena, who was seeking financial compensation for “innocent victims of AIDS” (in her view, those who were infected through blood transfusions) while denying this to other people with AIDS (gay men). This moving work came into being after Chan discovered the true reason for her homophobia – her tremendous anguish that both her sons were gay – and realized, ‘if we could read the secret history of those we would like to punish, we would find in each life enough grief and suffering to make us stop wishing anything more on them.’
