Death and the Ravin’
BY CAMPBELL BANKS This concert has me stumped. My fingers have been poised on the keyboard for ages now, stuck like a sprinter with […]
2017
Live review: Between 8 and 9, Chamber Made Opera
BY LEWIS INGHAM Between 8 and 9 Chengdu Teahouse Project Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, March 30 Use this colour to find a seat […]
My journey into music therapy: Part 1
BY NATASHA LIN Natasha Lin is a concert pianist and educator who has started her journey into music therapy practice. Throughout this year she will […]
Storytelling with the Newcastle Youth Orchestra
Newcastle Youth Orchestra joins with the Newcastle Writer’s Festival in 2017 in Kids Classics: Josephine Wants to Dance. This group of emerging musicians will perform […]
EXPOSED! Rob Clark, principal bass trombone
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you ever wondered what life is really like in the orchestra? Welcome to EXPOSED! Throughout 2017, we’re teaming up with musicians and […]
A chat with young conductor Leonard Weiss, CYO
BY LAURA BIEMMI We would like to welcome Laura Biemmi in her first interview as a CutCommon contributor. Composing. Conducting. Carillon. Leonard Weiss has conquered the […]
Best of the Brits (in choral)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It’s official: Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British royal history. And 65 years on the job certainly calls for […]
Corrina Bonshek brings new music to regional Australia
BY LEWIS INGHAM We would like to welcome Lewis Ingham in his first interview as a CutCommon contributor. Corrina Bonshek feels a responsibility to be an […]
Still Oblique to the Pathétique
BY CAMPBELL BANKS A confession: sometimes, when I am moping along a footpath through an oncoming rush of rage-inducing text-walkers, the gaudy jackets of […]
Between 8 and 9: Chamber Made Opera
A meeting is called to order. Seated around eight tables, with ‘dinner-table turntables’ or Lazy Susans, the audience is implicated in a protocol of encounters. […]