Until today, the only time I had ever heard any of Bach's Cello Suites being played was when Maurice Gendron's CD was in the stereo.
Late this afternoon, however, "life at the edge" took on a whole new meaning as Windgrove's latest refugee-in-residence, Tim Anderson, treated me to a solo recital of the Prelude for Suite No. 1. I think he was more blissed out than I, but nonetheless, using such a word as rapturous to describe how I felt would be an understatement.
Look carefully at the photo and there is a small fishing boat approaching. What reeled them in was a bow rubbing across strings on a wooden box. Blending with the sea air, the sea cliffs and the sea itself, a siren's call of rhythmic simplicity and warm seductive flow lured us all into believing that "This is as good as it gets".
Having flown in from America's east coast a week ago (Baltimore, Maryland) where he free-lances as a cellist in several orchestras as well as performing with the Live Wire String Quartet, I'm not sure Tim quite expected winter in Tasmania to be as stunningly beautiful as this.
If I have a secret hope, it is that a seventh cello suite might be composed in the next two weeks on these cliff tops and performed in Hobart at the Parliament House Vigil on August 19. If Tim can get fishermen to drop their bait, just think what might happen to our politicians determination to keep logging our old growth forests.
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