Colours of Country

Colours of Country opens the FQ 2027 season with composers who each pushed back against the labels put on them. Margaret Sutherland's String Quartet No.1, a landmark of Australian composition, sits twenty years on from Germaine Tailleferre's String Quartet, written by the only woman among Les Six, a name a critic invented for a group that was busy rebelling against the lush Romanticism of its predecessors.