Artistic director of QL2 Dance, Ruth Osborne, and her collaborator, Steve Gow, believe that change and revolution are still of intrinsic interest to young people, no less now than back in the revolutionary years from 1966 to 1970.
With the recent announcement of a Royal Commission into veterans' suicide, the message of a play coming to the Courtyard Studio this week seems apposite.
Composer Paul Dean’s new work “Symphony” is the commissioned centrepiece of three concerts by the Australian World Orchestra, playing under the baton of conductor Alexander Briger.
Some composers focused on human separation, physical and emotional, one reflected on musical issues and others looked to the sea and the sky for inspiration.
The ANU has today (May 10) officially launched a recording studio dedicated to indigenous musicians, with music-minded vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt looking on.
"In this venture simplicity was of the essence and had artistic director Peter Coleman-Wright decided to be more ambitious he might not have pulled it off," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
A day of music making at Belco Arts tops off this year’s Canberra International Music Festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA in her arts round-up for the weekend.