Last weekend I had the exceptional pleasure of strolling through the Art Gallery of New South Wales, viewing its spring/summer exhibition of over 70 paintings – The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. The collection spans more than four centuries of art with works from the Renaissance (Botticelli’s The Virgin adoring the sleeping…
The Choir and Orchestra of St James St James, King Street, Sydney 22 March 2014 Songs of the Divine – Baroque Masterpieces For the first concert in their 2014 series, the choir and orchestra of St James, under the direction of Warren Trevelyan-Jones, turned to the two pillars of the musical Baroque: Bach and…
The Choir and Orchestra of St James’ King Street presents Songs of the Divine, the exquisite sacred music of J S Bach and Handel in their inaugural concert for 2014. Under the direction of Warren Trevelyan-Jones, the ensemble will perform J S Bach’s Mass in A BWV 234, the motet Der Gerechte kommt um, attributed to Bach, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus….