Shelley: A chat with father and son
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you’re looking for a gig to make you feel warm and fuzzy, check out this Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra father-and-son event. […]
2017
Queer and Now: Ben Nielsen, producer
BY JASSY ROBERTSON Many composers and musicians will allow their art to speak for itself. Not always are they asked about their personal lives. […]
Music at St James’ presents Pilgrimage: To the Field of Stars
The Choir of St James’ with cellist Rowena Macneish and percussionists Joshua Hill and Tim Brigden present a program of music inspired by the […]
Soprano Jessica Harper on body image, realism, funding in opera
BY SPENCER DARBY I’d like to preface this interview with a disclaimer. I am a friend and fan of Jessica Harper. I have worked […]
Peter Coleman-Wright: Singing, spontaneity, and social protest
BY ELEANOR WOOD, LONDON CORRESPONDENT Peter Coleman-Wright has taken on many of the great baritone roles throughout history, singing from some of the most […]
Radio. Silence.
BY ASHER REISNER It was in a quintessentially 21st Century way that I learnt of Mika Vainio’s death. Although, even a decade ago, death […]
Live review: Sleeping Beauty @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Sleeping Beauty (Dark Mofo) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera Theatre Royal, 10 June What’d you miss? Creepy puppets Skillful […]
Live review: Silence @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Silence (Dark Mofo) Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra strings Federation Concert Hall, 28 June Not clapping during classical music […]
Live review: Objetos de Imitacion
BY THOMAS MISSON Objetos de Imitacion New music by various composers Simon Reade (conductor), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Benjamin Price (saxophone), Graeme Jennings (violin), Dan Brown (percussion) […]
Lachlan Skipworth: Japan’s influence in my music
BY LACHLAN SKIPWORTH, COMPOSER I wish to write a little about my Piano Trio, and how the traditional shakuhachi piece Daha found its way […]