Canberra International Music Festival Concert 6 – New Zealand String Quartet Albert Hall, May 13, 2012 Reviewed by Clinton White THE New Zealand String Quartet this year celebrates its 25th anniversary and the current line-up has…
“Inspired by Gamelan” National Library of Australia, May 12. Reviewed by Ian McLean THE National Library of Australia holds the largest collection of music manuscripts in the country, so it was fitting that the one…
THEATRE “Speaking in Tongues” By Andrew Bovell, directed by Ross McGregor for Canberra Repertory, at Theatre 3 until May 19. Reviewed by Helen Musa THIS is a deceptively simple play and one that becomes increasingly…
“Friends and Admirers” Selby & Friends James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA, Monday, May 7. Review by Clinton White INTRODUCING Stravinksy’s “Suite Italienne” for violin and piano, Kathryn Selby’s friend, violinist Sophie Rowell, said it was…
DELINEATING the moral and ethical dilemma arising when men behave abominably toward people unable to defend themselves, Marius Holst’s film tells about a riot in 1915 at the reformatory on Bastoy Island across the bay…
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…
