Selby and Friends review
Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Flautist Sally Walker and harpist Emily Granger release their new album, Something Like This in November, on the UK-based independent classical music label Avie Records.
Peter Grimes – Benjamin Britten Four Seasons Theatre, Toronto 8 October 2013. Opera Australia’s 2009 production of Britten’s Peter Grimes by Neil Armfield was a co-production with the West Australian Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Canadian Opera Company. The Canadians have delayed showing the production until this year and it is now their contribution…
Salome – Richard Strauss Opera Australia Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House 6 March 2019 If Richard Strauss’ Salome were a movie, it may well display an X rating. Incest, necrophilia, lust, decapitation and suicide are all notorious elements in this, the third of Strauss’ operas and the one which made his name. Opera Australia’s…
In its CD Tango de Saxos, the four outstanding saxophonists of Nexas Quartet demonstrate their intimate knowledge of tango style, and know what works for their combination of instruments.
Sydney Youth Orchestras Janáček and Brahms Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 24 March, 2019 The Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music resounded with the cacophony of 70 young orchestral players of the Sydney Youth Orchestra Philharmonic, rehearsing their parts at full volume, playing fast as they could, before being tamed by the…
True Romantics Australian Chamber Choir Art Gallery of NSW 16 September, 2018 Beneath the artworks of some of Australia’s greatest painters, the Melbourne based Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence OAM, presented its program True Romantics, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of its Resonate concert series. Moving beyond the…