"This was one of the best concerts I have seen in Canberra, and from youths that would give any major Australian orchestra a run for their money." ROB KENNEDY reviews the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Review
BRIAN ROPE reviews American photographer Nan Goldin's exhibition “The ballad of sexual dependency”, at the National Gallery until January 28.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Robyn Archer's "Australian Songbook" show: "Her choices were thought-provoking, sometimes provocative, often surprising, always interesting, definitely entertaining and threaded together by an engrossing script."
ROB KENNEDY reviews a colourful and catchy exhibition that looks at the effect music has on visual art.
LEN POWER reviews “Voice Unwrapped”, a concert by soprano Sarah Mann and pianist Ella Luhtasaari.
GRAHAM MCDONALD reviews Musica da Camera's “Australian Gifts: A Sound to Behold" concert.
"The amazing feat of memory to play the whole concert without sheet music was a testament to the ability and knowledge of this gifted pianist," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
"His topics are confronting and political and nothing it appears is off limits." But says reviewer BILL STEPHENS it's thought-provoking and unnervingly entertaining.
In her first column of book reviews for "CityNews", ANNA CREER looks at a couple of volumes of "cosy crime", which is enjoying a resurgence in popularity in print and on TV.
“Footloose” will take its place among some of the Queanbeyan Players most successful productions, says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
"It's impossible not to underplay the importance Creswick’s innate capacity to weave composition through his lyrical and documentary style investigation of the subject," writes reviewer ARNE FEALING.
"Trying to prepare for an inevitable birth, motherhood, and a body that is no longer just hers, deep down, Hazel is scared and anxious, yet hoping for another happy ending," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
