10-12 October 2025

Apparitions

Beckoning the Shadow Realm

Date and Time
Sun 12 Oct, 11:30am
Venue
Reardon Theatre
Duration
60 minutes
Cost
$39 / $32
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Superstar classical accordionist James Crabb launches us into the glorious pandemonium of John Zorn’s Road Runner, an exhilarating maze of ever-changing style and instantly-recognisable musical quotation that propulsively ignites the spectre of our much-loved uncatchable Looney Tunes character. Sparks keep flying as electrifying soprano Judith Dodsworth and pianistic dynamo Peter de Jager combine superpowers to summon George Crumb’s Apparition, his spellbinding setting of Walt Whitman’s 1865 poem When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, brimming with tenderness and mysticism. Crabb then returns to the stage with cello wizard Timo-Veikko Valve, a potent partnership to unleash the sizzling soul of Astor Piazzolla’s flashy masterpiece, Le Grand Tango.

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John Zorn
Road Runner
George Crumb
Apparition
Astor Piazzolla
Le Grand Tango

Judith Dodsworth Soprano
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Peter de Jager Piano
James Crabb Classical Accordion