Bel a capella joins the marrickville symphony orchestra for a choral fantasy

Bel a capella joins the marrickville symphony orchestra for a choral fantasy

  What a thrill to watch the creation and growth of a new music ensemble. When that ensemble, like Phoenix, rises from the ashes of something that lived before, there is an added sense of history.  This is the story of the Marrickville Symphony Orchestra, the first council supported community orchestra in Sydney, founded in…

Good Friday fare: Pergolesi and Stainer

Two powerful images from the events of Good Friday at Calvary, are brought together in music on Good Friday, 22nd April when  Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is performed alongside Stainers’  Crucifixion,  at St Stephen’s Church, in Macquarie Street, Sydney.  Pergolesi’s work paints the grieving mother whilst Stainer’s depicts the object of her grief –  the crucifixion death of her Son. In fact,…