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Weekend concerts in Canberra: ‘lovely acoustic’

CANBERRA’S OWN operatic impresario, Carl Rafferty, has decided to farewell his talented soprano daughter Kate before she heads back to Vienna to pursue her singing career.

Kate Rafferty as the Queen of the Night earlier this year
Kate Rafferty as the Queen of the Night earlier this year
Naturally, it will be a musical farewell, to take place in historic St. John’s Church Reid, where, Rafferty assures us, “the lovely acoustic is the perfect place to enjoy wonderful singing.”

Kate Rafferty will be joined by three of Canberra’s brightest and best, Thomas Azoury on clarinet, Zach Raffan on trumpet  and Alison Laurens on violin.

“None of the songs featured in this concert,” proud father Carl assures Citynews, have been performed in our Albert Hall concerts.”  The program will include works by Handel, Schubert, novelty songs and arias by Mozart and Gounod, as well as “some lovely Christmas songs”, with  bubbly and Christmas cake on the church laws afterwards. Kate Rafferty, at St. John’s Church Reid, 5pm, Saturday November 23, bookings to raffertycarl@internode.on.net

MUSIC FOR EVERYONE, based in the Ainslie Arts Centre, is staging its  “Big Guitar Gig” on Saturday, November  23 from noon to 4pm.  The event is open to all guitar players across Canberra, bringing together musicians of varying skill levels for a free half-day community project. Good news for the public is that at 3:30pm there will be a free concert, details to http://mfe.org.au/

MICHELLE HEINE, the principal of “Legs” Dance Studio, together with the teachers and students of “Legs” Dance Studio, is about to stage a dance concert called “Something Old & Something New,”  which promises “hundreds of amazing costumes to dazzle you”.

Heine is particularly proud of the Dance Extravaganza filled with a bevy of beauties in their opening Showgirl opening routine, Las Vegas, but the concert features students aged from  three years to adults. At the Canberra Theatre, 11am and 3pm, Saturday, November 23, looking at 6275 2700 or canberra.theatre.centre.com.au

Cellist and composer David Pereira
Cellist and composer David Pereira
LIMESTONE CONSORT’S final concert for 2013, “Bach to Bach”, is on this Sunday at 3pm at All Saints’ Anglican Church, Ainslie. The concert features the world premiere of the “Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Baroque Strings” by David Pereira. “While I hear in my music all kinds of ‘influences’,” the composer says,  “their inclusion mostly is accidental”.

Other works will include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto number 3, CPE Bach’s Symphony no 1 in G major for strings, and Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos RV531 played by David Pereira and his student, Clara Teniswood. Tickets at the door, free for under 16s.

 

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