Ensemble return marks a musical high kick
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By Peter Mccallum
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Sir John Clancy Auditorium, April 10
The Australia Ensemble celebrated its post-pandemic return to the live stage with a program dominated by jaunty breeziness and cheer, leaping into the first work, Percy Grainger’s arrangement of
Shepherd’s Hey, with a musical kick of the heels.
This was the first of a bracket of Three Folksongs, which had in turn been further arranged for piano trio and clarinet by clarinettist David Griffiths and Ian Young in an adaptation the composer would only have applauded.