Music / “Night Songs”, Jill Sullivan, mezzo-soprano; Robert Harris, viola; Alan Hicks, piano; Wesley Music Centre, October 16. Reviewed by LEN POWER
Music / “Beethoven’s Emperor”, Australian Haydn Ensemble. At University House, ANU. Thursday, October 12. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY
CANBERRA singer-songwriter Fred Smith is often called a contemporary folk singer but his new album, “Great”, is something quite different – “a rollicking hayride through American history, politics and pathologies”. Smith can accurately boast that […]
Music / Astor Piazzolla Anniversary 1992-2017 Tango. Pianist Marcela Fiorillo. At the Wesley Music Centre, September 30. Reviewed by LEN POWER
Music / “The Garden of Music”. At the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, September 30. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.
Music / “Monet’s Flowers of War”. At the James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA, September 29. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY
PIANIST Linus (Hanul) Lee, 22, has won the ACT Young Virtuoso Award competition held at community radio station ArtSound FM’s Manuka studio over the weekend. Lee, of O’Connor, won an ArtSound recording session worth $500 […]
PAINSTAKINGLY, Christopher Latham has pieced together a “pocket” or “jukebox” opera about the role of women in World War I. Latham is the brains behind the World War I-targeted project “Flowers of War”, which in […]
CANBERRA’S youngest and busiest conductor, Leonard Weiss, 25, has been selected for the 2018 Australian Conducting Academy Summer School. During the school, which will be held in Hobart throughout January and February, Weiss will get […]
Music / “William Dooley’s Marvellous Moments of Music”, William Dooley – piano and violin, musicians from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Canberra Wind Symphony. At Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, September 23. Reviewed by LEN […]
MUSIC will join with fashion on Friday, September 29, when Grammy-winning musician, Tony Rich hits the Fashfest stage. The lead of the Tony Rich Project, Rich is best known for his hit single “Nobody Knows”, […]
EDWIN Kim, the winner of the $25,000 first prize at the 3rd Australian International Chopin Piano Competition, is still in town. As part of his win he will perform a program of Chopin and other […]
CANBERRA’S classical music enthusiasts will have plenty to choose from next year. But as well as the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, The Griffyn Ensemble, and the National Capital Orchestra, there are plenty of out-of-town favourites and […]
Music / “Basically Beethoven”, Selby & Friends. At James O Fairfax Theatre, September 18. Review by CLINTON WHITE
Arts / Final and awards of the 3rd Australian International Chopin Piano Competition. At Llewellyn Hall, September 17. Report by CLINTON WHITE
music / “Igitur Nos Chamber Choir” presented a spring concert. St Paul’s Church, Manuka. September 17. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY
Music / 2017 Chopin 3rd Australian International Piano Competition, Semi-final Session 3. At ANU School of Music, Llewellyn Hall, Saturday, September 16. Reviewed by LEN POWER
Music / Masterclass, Australian International Chopin Piano Competition. At the Larry Sitsky Recital Room, September 16. Report by Clinton White
IT’s 50 years since Judith Clingan founded the Canberra Children’s Choir and very appropriately, she’s been invited back to lead the celebrations tomorrow (September 16) at Canberra Grammar School’s Tim Murray Theatre. As well, it […]
Music / Altstaedt & Madžar. At Llewellyn Hall, September 14. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD
POLICE have slapped five infringement notices on a man caught on Hindmarsh Drive, Phillip, driving with four children not wearing seat belts. The fines totalled $2056 and 12 demerit points. About 4.45pm yesterday (February 26), police stopped a […]
AS a teenager, Menslink helped Josh Turk through, what he calls, “your not-so-typical teenage issues”, so later on in life it was fitting he took on a role as mentor to give someone the help […]
THE ACT government says its providing Canberra children, aged between six months and five years, a free influenza vaccination this winter. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Meegan Fitzharris says they’ll be available from any of […]
ALL Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage Library will be closed Wednesday, February 28, for the annual Libraries ACT Planning and Development Day. Director of Libraries ACT Vanessa Little says the Annual Planning and […]
ONE man’s disaster is another man’s serendipity. If Barnaby Joyce hadn’t fallen spectacularly, Michael McCormack, 53, the new deputy prime minister, would likely never have become the Nationals’ leader. In the normal course of events, […]
