Chamber music by French trailblazer Louise Farrenc and Leigh Harrold in praise of the vulnerable man

Pianist Leigh Harrold returns to the stage of Tempo Queer - a series of concerts run by Coady Green at Brunswick's Tempo Rubato. With oboist Dafydd Camp, Leigh presents "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man," a program of music by queer male composers. 

And clarinettist from the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Nicole van Bruggen gives us some insight into what it might have been like to be a female composer and pianist in mid-19th Century Paris through the eyes of Louise Farrenc. 

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra are playing Farrenc's Nonet on their current tour. 

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