Live Review: Choir of King’s College Cambridge
BY ANDREW MESSENGER Choir of King’s College Cambridge Works by various composers QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, 29 July 2014 Here is a list of […]
July 2014
Virtuosi Tasmania: The Ultimate Road Trip
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Q. What do you get when you gather the finest musicians in Tasmania and send them on a road trip? […]
New Musicians’ Health Program is Music to our Ears
BY BEN NIELSEN “I felt something niggling and then my arm felt really strange and suddenly I couldn’t hold up my clarinet any more. […]
Official Playlist: Carbon Tax Axe
By SAM GILLIES, ANDREW MESSENGER, AND LUCY RASH Now that the Carbon Tax has been repealed and those oppressive cost of living raises have finally […]
Just Like the Movies: Christopher de Groot
BY SAM GILLIES For the past few years, Christopher de Groot has focused on writing film music amongst his other projects as composer, improviser […]
Live Review: Opera Australia’s Otello
BY SPENCER DARBY Opera Australia Otello by Verdi Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 5 July 2014 Somewhat appropriately after the social media-fuelled […]
Live Review: The Chimney Sweep
BY BEN NIELSEN Pinchgut Opera The Chimney Sweep by Salieri City Recital Hall, Sydney, 5 July 2014 A rumour surfaced after Mozart’s death: […]
Is Baroque the most high-brow music ever?
BY ANDREW MESSENGER There is something of an arms race in (some) cultural circles. Everyone wants to be the edgiest, newest, most challenging – […]
Live Review: Opera Australia’s Rigoletto
BY SPENCER DARBY Opera Australia Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 2 July 2014 In the wake of recent controversy […]