Hits: 246 This year's line-up, a cross section of some of the finest chamber ensembles in the country, would have graced any of Australia’s more well established festivals, and it is a massive endorsement of Festival Director Catherine Harker’s entrepreneurial skill that she was able to secure these... Created: 27 April 2022 |
Hits: 204 Our ears had been purified, refined into the most subtle distinctions of resonance by baroque harp and voice, so that the sound of a modern wind quintet burst on our ears like a thunderstorm after gentle sunshine. Created: 14 March 2022 |
Hits: 247 This venue, purpose built for chamber music, has been described as the best chamber music concert hall in Australia. Created: 14 March 2022 |
Hits: 233 In just half an hour, I was alone, face to face with a screen on which was someone older than me whom I’d never met and would be most unlikely ever to meet again. Created: 12 March 2022 |
Hits: 242 This was a truly transformative experience. Created: 09 March 2022 |
Hits: 281 It is rare indeed to attend a work whose dramatic place is less than a kilometre from its place of staging. Created: 08 March 2022 |
Hits: 341 The Australian Haydn Ensemble are an early music orchestra at the top of their game. Created: 08 March 2022 |
Hits: 294 I doubt that this opera will ever make it into the standard repertoire. Yet congratulations to the Festival organisers for putting it on especially in the current circumstances. Created: 07 March 2022 |
Hits: 442 The Adelaide Festival is a cultural flagship of Australia. Modelled on the Edinburgh Festival, it has throughout its history staged works unfamiliar to Australian audiences. Created: 07 March 2022 |
Hits: 975 Wudjang: Not the Past is, among other things, a powerful wake-up call to non-indigenous Australians like me. After almost 250 years we shouldn’t need it, but we do. Created: 28 January 2022 |
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