Tomorrow (Friday 24 April, Eve of St Mark, Eve of Anzac Day) I will
be playing Jiri Ropek's Variations on the Easter Sequence "Vicimae
Paschali Laudes" at St Andrew's Cathedral, at the usual time of 1.10
pm.

Ropek, like Messiaen, was as much theologian as composer, and his
music searches out the Easter themes of Life and Death, of
Resurrection and Cosmic Triumph, with quite remarkable depth and
intensity.

A rare chance to hear music rarely performed in Australia.

(David Malloy tells me he once played this piece at St Mary's
Cathedral, but I think that was about 20 years ago, so I doubt if
many will feel that the music is boringly hackneyed and familiar !)

John Aitchison.