How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]
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The new Hush album is “pure comfort” for mothers and carers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Kate Miller-Heidke describes The Healing Tree as “pure comfort”. The idea for this single swirled in her mind when, before the pandemic, […]
The MSO’s Thomas Hutchinson is about to perform a huge concerto
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR It’s common practice for a major Australian orchestra to invite world-renowned soloists to dazzle local audiences with their interpretations of […]
Could this be why we still love Mozart so much?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Party animal. Revolutionist. Bohemian. Uber-famous artist with the lifestyle to match. This is how conductor Benjamin Northey would describe 20-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mark sees Last and First Men (Vivid)
BY MARK BOSCH, LEAD CRITIC Last and First MenVivid LIVESydney Symphony Orchestra (with Benjamin Northey, conductor)Sydney Opera House, 2 June Last and First Men, directed […]
Bridget goes to see Star Wars IV with the QSO
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Star Wars IV: A New Hope Queensland Symphony Orchestra Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, 7 July A curious assortment of […]
Classical music our way: Melbourne Philharmonia Project
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Melbourne Philharmonia Project defines itself with ambition: “An orchestral movement changing the perceptions of classical music”. And we love it. Hitting […]
Benjamin Northey talks Hitchcock & Herrmann
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Without a doubt, my favourite scene in movie history is one from Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo. As James Stewart kisses Kim […]