Musical Adventures

 Qualia Ensemble

This is a husband (Lucas Levin, viola) and wife (Yi-Shing Cheng, piano) duo who have recently emigrated to Melbourne, with a background at the Royal Academy of Music, London.  They performed in Scots Church Russell St in a lunch time concert organised by Music Matinee.

The music played was very wide ranging from Bach and Hummel to Arvo Pärt.  At Frances suggestion we sat very close to the front so that it was possible to see Yi-shing's hands on the keyboard (when they weren't moving too fast for my eyes to track).  I especially like the minimalist Pärt work: as usual with this genre trying to work out the pattern and pick changes was very amusing.

Of course this also got us into the church which is very well presented.



After the performance we headed towards Big W for some retail therapy.  We walked down Little Bourke St (very heavily marketedas Chinatown.  We went into an Asian supermarket which was very reminiscent of similar places in SE Asia.  Coming up a side alley towards Lonsdale St this street portrait was very impressive.





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