THE 11th Annual Christmas Eve at the Carillon concert will be performed on Saturday featuring a range of Christmas music performed by local carillonists, Astrid Bowler and Susan Antcliff. NCA exhibition facilities manager Seona Doherty…
THIS extraordinary ensemble of glum, pseudo-Balkan troubadours, have roamed the world for 10 years, and last week returned to where it all began, The Street Theatre, for a series of performances to celebrate, as they…
IT’S time to applaud triumphs on the arts scene… • THE Capital Arts Patrons Organisation’s annual gala auction raised close to $60,000 towards CAPO’s program of financial assistance to artists through awards and fellowships. •…
THE standard of musical theatre in Canberra is excellent as highlighted by outstanding 2011 productions such as “Avenue Q” and “Blood Brothers”. Sadly, this initial offering from the Canberra Opera Workshop fell short of those…
“I’M a bit too old to dance,” singer Wayne Rogers is telling me, “I’m a trained dancer, but I wouldn’t call what I do dancing.” We can take that with a grain of salt. Rogers,…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
