Shelley: A chat with father and son
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you’re looking for a gig to make you feel warm and fuzzy, check out this Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra father-and-son event. […]
2017
Queer and Now: Ben Nielsen, producer
BY JASSY ROBERTSON Many composers and musicians will allow their art to speak for itself. Not always are they asked about their personal lives. […]
Music at St James’ presents Pilgrimage: To the Field of Stars
The Choir of St James’ with cellist Rowena Macneish and percussionists Joshua Hill and Tim Brigden present a program of music inspired by the […]
Soprano Jessica Harper on body image, realism, funding in opera
BY SPENCER DARBY I’d like to preface this interview with a disclaimer. I am a friend and fan of Jessica Harper. I have worked […]
Peter Coleman-Wright: Singing, spontaneity, and social protest
BY ELEANOR WOOD, LONDON CORRESPONDENT Peter Coleman-Wright has taken on many of the great baritone roles throughout history, singing from some of the most […]
Radio. Silence.
BY ASHER REISNER It was in a quintessentially 21st Century way that I learnt of Mika Vainio’s death. Although, even a decade ago, death […]
Live review: Sleeping Beauty @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Sleeping Beauty (Dark Mofo) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera Theatre Royal, 10 June What’d you miss? Creepy puppets Skillful […]
Live review: Silence @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Silence (Dark Mofo) Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra strings Federation Concert Hall, 28 June Not clapping during classical music […]
Lachlan Skipworth: Japan’s influence in my music
BY LACHLAN SKIPWORTH, COMPOSER I wish to write a little about my Piano Trio, and how the traditional shakuhachi piece Daha found its way […]
ANAM students perform in aid of humanitarian crisis
Musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music will present benefit concert Safe and Sound on July 21 at 7.30pm in aid of the Asylum […]