SUMMERFEST SURPRISES
">La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest Here are its key components: Thematic inspiration Building a program that is coherent, engaging and entertaining is no small task, and one effective way to do...
View ArticleInternational Circa ‘S’ is coming to town - 11/8/2014 (Mildura Rural City...
(Source: Mildura Rural City Council) A circus of a different kind is heading to Mildura with Mildura Arts Centre presenting 'S' by Circa on Saturday 16 August. 'S' by Circa is an amazing performance...
View ArticleThe Ives Quartet begins their season with operatic influences
This season the San Francisco performances of the subscription concerts offered by the Ives Quartet (violinists Bettina Mussumeli and Susan Freier, violist Jodi Levitz, and cellist Stephen Harrison)...
View ArticleBorodin Quartet review: Lack of energy in Musica Viva show at Melbourne...
Reviewer rating: Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars BORODIN QUARTET ★★☆ Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Melbourne Recital Centre September 27 One of the stalwarts of the chamber music scene was back in town for a...
View ArticleCultural exchanges with Asia help artists improve relations
AS I write, artists and performers are creating Australia's cultural future in studios, on stages, in communities and concert halls across Asia. From five leading writers on a 2000km rail journey...
View ArticleCross-arts: June monthly round up (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) For immediate release: 19 April 2013 June sees the launch of Beyond Barbican, a summer of events outside the walls of the Centre that includes pop-up performances, commissions...
View ArticleScaled-up centenary collection set for Canberra
Media call at the Canberra Theatre for the season launch of Collected Works. An excerpt from Wunderkammer performed by Freyja Edney. Photo: Melissa Adams As part of the celebration of Canberra's...
View ArticleThe Musical Concepts collection of Shostakovich’s string quartets
One cannot appreciate the music of Dmitri Shostakovich without including his string quartets. His widow went as far as to call this collection of his music a “diary, the story of his soul;” a remark...
View ArticleCirca
Reviewer rating: Rating: 40 out of 5 stars Directed by Yaron Lifschitz Merlyn Theatre, The Malthouse, until June 10...
View ArticleBrisbane arts year in review: Top 5 dance/cabaret shows in 2013
360 Allstars is in action at the Judith Wright Centre this week. Photo: Supplied As 2013 draws to a close, Brisbane Times arts editor and reviewer Natalie Bochenski looks back on the best of the...
View ArticleMelbourne festival runs away with the circus in 2014 programme
International circus troupes take centre stage in a festival line-up that aims to surprise, says director Josephine Ridge ...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Lobkowitz and Dvorak's American at Quartetthaus
MUSIC ANAM Quartetthaus Program B1 Quartetthaus, South Melbourne Until October 18 ★★★☆ In a square box on a patch of ground in South Melbourne, ANAM's Quartetthaus...
View ArticleHow Like An Angel, Ripon Cathedral, July 19-20
How Like An Angel, Ripon Cathedral, July 19-20 RIPON Cathedral will play host to the British premiere of How Like An Angel, a combination of perilous Australian circus skills and I Fagiolini’s choral...
View ArticlePhilip Glass opera leads Brisbane Festival lineup
Several top international acts will be part of artistic director Noel Staunton's swansong ...
View ArticleReview, Music@Menlo: infused with Bach's influence
Bach's legacy, which is the focus of this summer's Music@Menlo chamber music festival, encompasses a wealth of genres and styles. But nothing in the musical world says "Bach" quite as unmistakably as...
View ArticleBarbican Theatre and Dance: January - June 2014 (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) The Barbican today announces the full line-up of shows in the Barbican Theatre, The Pit and Silk Street Theatre from January to June 2014 completing the season of productions...
View ArticleChen Zhao offers a diverse violin recital at the Conservatory
Related topics classicalSF Conservatorychamber musicsecular cantataskeyboard music Advertisement Last night’s Faculty Artist Series recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music by violinist Chen...
View ArticleConcert Hour: Borodin Quartet Pt. 2/2
Russia and Beethoven - it's a theme expansive enough for a season of shows, as the Beethovenfest Bonn is proving by presenting Beethoven's string quartets alongside those of great Russian composers....
View ArticleCirca's jaw-dropping circus tricks – in pictures
In their new show, Opus, the Australian troupe Circa combine staggering acrobatics with Shostakovich string quartets. Take a whirl through some of the other surprises in the company's colourful past ...
View ArticleWunderkinder: Circa's Wunderkammer
The dark auditorium at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is quiet, but you can feel the excitement in the air. Jessica Connell is perched on a trapeze in a single spotlight as a piece of...
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