Lawyers, as chronic high-achievers forced to parse contract terms for a living, have an insatiable appetite for doing anything but the law: legal poets, playwrights, painters, comics and corporate thriller writers have all graced these pages in recent times.

So it follows that the legal fraternity has assembled from its ranks a cast of composers, conductors, classical musicians and choir singers, almost all with legal backgrounds, for the latest event in the NSW Supreme Court’s year-long bicentenary jamboree.