"The fascinating and highly entertaining works performed proved the immense diversity and creativity of music coming out of the Baroque period." ROB KENNEDY reviews Salut! Baroque.
Review
"Watching the Vision String Quartet playing, you were aware that, in the absence of printed music, there seemed an increased reliance and trust between the players," writes reviewer LEN POWER.
COLIN STEELE reviews three new memoirs by authors impacted at the loss of their mothers when they were children.
Craft reviewer MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE looks at the "Plant Stories: Woven Tapestry Narratives” at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN rates Mary Rachel Brown's "Rosieville" as a "sane and funny play, a rarity in that it is about ordinary life in Canberra".
The large, resplendent Band of the Royal Military College performed for more than two hours a program of five works for wind instruments with "skill and obvious enjoyment". Reviewer LEN POWER was there.
"As the moment of cacophony subsided into angelic sounds of shimmering cymbals, the audience could contain itself no longer," writes BILL STEPHENS, who is reviewing a performance of "Tubular Bells".
"Without sheet music for the whole concert, Pobłocka’s concentration of sound flowed effortlessly from her fingers to create a grand musical experience." Awestruck reviewer ROB KENNEDY relishes the performance of pianist Ewa Pobłocka.
"Michael Boyd’s passion for magic and desire to entertain is clear. He wants to make your worries disappear, if just for a moment. And through the illusion of magic, that’s exactly what happens," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Teresa Wojcik's "deeply personal response" to the catastrophes of the 2019/20 bushfires and the covid pandemic.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews "Networks Australia: Artists at Work”, craft by a group of artists, who live and work in Australia.
"It is a style of music for which there is no cultural equivalent in Australia... It is a music of joy and passion, which had this reviewer leaving the theatre with a big smile." GRAHAM McDONALD's been to see Victor Valdes and his band.
