Hits: 1518 It was an impressively polished performance from a world-class ensemble, and it attracted a large and very appreciative audience. Created: 23 October 2009 |
Hits: 2066 A Melbourne Symphony Orchestra concert with an all-Australian program is a rare thing, but then the Melbourne International Arts Festival specialises in promoting rare, unusual and interesting art. Created: 18 October 2009 |
Hits: 1668 It was a dazzling performance by an ensemble of musicians who are clearly committed to the music they play, and who obviously gain great enjoyment from it. Created: 11 October 2009 |
Hits: 2876 The three young musicians who make up Golden Fur are not afraid of experimentation, and in the field of new music they can’t afford to be. Created: 08 September 2009 |
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Eva Yerbabuena’s flamenco is the real thing: pure, fierce dance with only music as adornment. Created: 29 August 2009 |
Hits: 1995 Violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto was the star of the show on Friday night at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. Created: 02 August 2009 |
Hits: 3888 Unclassifiable, Wunderschön straddles cabaret, theatre, and classical music in its re-imagining of 21 Lieder by nineteenth-century composers Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Created: 22 June 2009 |
Hits: 4051 Barely Contained makes you laugh, think, gasp, grab on to the edge of your seat, let out a sigh of relief, and then laugh again. Created: 21 June 2009 |
Hits: 3035 While the image of Brahms as a turbulent and highly sensitive ‘Great Romantic’ is easily understood, Arnold Schoenberg is perhaps not the first composer to come to mind when we think of Romanticism in music. Created: 16 June 2009 |
Hits: 2180 Performing new and experimental music, particularly in an ensemble that is traditionally associated with Western ‘high art’ and classical music, is a risky business. Created: 09 June 2009 |
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