Beauty reigns in young artists’ recital
ROB KENNEDY reviews Birth & Rebirth, a concert performed by James Monro, Sarah Zhu and Paul Nicolaou.
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GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Prayers and Lamentations, a performance by The Oriana Chorale.
"Heather Mitchell’s performance as the legendary US lawyer and judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poetry in motion." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews RGB: Of Many, One.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Shoe-Horn Sonata, at The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick.
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Concert of passionate highs and depths of grief
"The ensemble were magnificent. They were wonderfully supportive of the soloists but had an energy, colour, intensity and virtuosity of their own that had the audience mesmerised." ALPHA GREGORY reviews the Australian Haydn Ensemble.
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Seagull’s detailed and unsuspecting journey
"Karen Vickery’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull makes for a highly relatable and accessible text heightened by strong and, at times, very powerful performances from the cast," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
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Passionate recital of bitter-sweet romantic songs
LEN POWER reviews Romantic Masters, a performance by tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Roland Peelman.
LEN POWER reviews Heroic Masterworks performed by pianist Edward Neeman.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Son et Lumière by Musica da Camera at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.
HELEN MUSA reviews For M Is Musick, performed by the Llewellyn Choir at WesleyUniting Church.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews South Facing, an exhibition by Holly Grace and Julie Bradley at Craft + Design Canberra.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews a large exhibition of ceramics by Moraig McKenna at the Canberra Potters Gallery.
ANNA CREER reviews a couple of Australian crime fiction books – one set in regional Victoria, the other – a grittier read – on the Gold Coast.
Folk culture was alive and well at EPIC, where an estimated 40,000 people gathered for the National Folk Festival, writes reviewer CASSIDY RICHENS.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews Rosalind Lemoh's Told. Retold. Untold exhibition at Canberra Glassworks.
CASSIDY RICHENS reviews the opening concert of this year's National Folk Festival.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews an exhibition of drawings by Kirrily Humphries.
"No histrionics. Just brilliant pianism leaving no doubt that this is a fabulously talented young musician, who, if fate favours him, is destined for a brilliant career." BILL STEPHENS reviews Reuben Tsang.
"The whole orchestra was visibly engaged and responsive under Louis Sharpe’s baton," says DANTE COSTA in his review of the National Capital Orchestra.
