The splendid Adelaide Symphony Orchestra teamed with the Elder Conservatorium Chorale and the Graduate Singers to present a brilliantly conceived program of seldom heard music
Intense, suspenseful, mystifying and intriguing. The audience is left pondering the meaning, the process and the outcome.
Suspense and surprise go south in North by Northwest, substituted with cheesy cheer east of Edam.
This is no traditional re-telling of the mismatched romance, fairies, and foolishness of yore. The team at Sheoak have turned the tables, setting the scene in fair Kings Cross, Sydney, 1983.
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.
This venue, purpose built for chamber music, has been described as the best chamber music concert hall in Australia.
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.