Live at Lunch - Meditations on Australia

Next date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 | 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM

Rainforest, Desert, Sand and Sea

Drew Forsythe, Jane Rutter, Susan Blake, Terence Clarke, with Lachlan Youll didjeridoo

Beloved Australian actor, singer, and writer Drew Forsythe joins cellist Susan Blake, flautist Jane Rutter, Lachlan Youll on didjeridoo, and special guest dramatist and renowned music theatre composer, Terence Clarke on piano.

With music and poetry for and from the Australian continent, the performers play works from Jane Rutter’s album Meditations on Australia, and compositions by Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin, The Seekers and Terence Clarke.

Jane Rutter plays Selby’s beautiful Spirit of the Earthand a Botany Bay meditation. Drew performs the hilarious Jindyworobak from The Venetian Twins. Poetry by Kenneth Slessor, Adam Lindsay Gordon, A.D. Hope, Banjo Patterson and Judith Wright will deliver audiences to an Australian summer!