Colour and Connotation: the World of the Toy Piano
BY ANGUS DAVISON Margaret Leng Tan Clangor! The Spiegeltent, Hobart, 10 March 2015 Margaret Leng Tan’s Speigletent performance employed a battery of non-conventional […]
Reviews
New voices share their experiences of live and recorded music
Live Review: The Music Box Project
BY ANTONIA ZAPPIA The Music Box Project ‘Project: in 4’ Glebe Justice Centre, Glebe, 4 March 2015 Founders of The Music Box Project […]
Live Review: TSO’s Symphonic Dances
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra ‘Symphonic Dances’ Works by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Kay, and Grieg Federation Concert Hall, 28 February 2015 In […]
Live Review: Huon Quartet Plays Barber and Beethoven
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Huon Quartet (Elinor Lea, Rohana O’Malley, Douglas Coghill, Jane Tallon) ‘Transcendence’ String Quartet Op. 11 by Barber, String Quartet Op. […]
Book review: Andrew Ford’s Earth Dances
BY SAMUEL COTTELL Andrew Ford: Earth Dances (2015) Black Inc. Books, $30.00 RRP An appropriate reaction to the news that Andrew Ford has another […]
Live Review: Faust
BY ANGUS MCPHERSON Opera Australia Faust by Gounod Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 17 February 2015 With elaborate sets, decadent costumes and […]
Review: Tess Said So
BY ANTONIA ZAPPIA CD release ‘I Did That Tomorrow’ By Tess Said So (Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen) ‘I Did That Tomorrow’ is […]
Live Review: Tosca
BY BEN NIELSEN Opera Australia Tosca by Puccini Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 13 January 2105 “Have we seen this before?” […]
Live Review: La Bohème
BY BEN NIELSEN Opera Australia La Bohème by Puccini Sydney Opera House, 6 January 2015 In 1930s Berlin, a group of artists congregate in […]
Live Review: The Magic Flute
BY BEN NIELSEN Opera Australia The Magic Flute by Mozart Sydney Opera House, 2 January 2015 It couldn’t be further from the African […]