Featuring Tama Matheson – writer & actor, and artists from Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts.

Not quite a concert, not quite a play, When The World Was Wide is a melding of narrative, acting and concert music. It digs deep into the life and sparring friendship of two of Australia’s most iconic poets and writers, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, drawing on atmospheric and evocative music to set the scene. When the World Was Wide is the fifth collaboration between Camerata and Tama Matheson. Audiences and critics continue to praise these adventurous, artistic collaborations.

May Brahe/Helen Taylor       Bless This House

John Thorn/Henry Lawson   The Shame of Going Back

John Thorn/Henry Lawson   Faces in the Street 

Peter Sculthorpe                  Port Essington

John Tavener                       Eternal Memory for Cello and Strings 

Miriam Hyde                         Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda (arranged for Strings)

Cameron Patrick                  Impressions of Erin for String Orchestra 

And selections of poetry and writings by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson