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Photos from The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s opening of ‘Glorious Baroque’ season.
Violinist Riccardo Minasi is soloist and Guest Director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in its season of ‘Glorious Baroque’ which opened last weekend. Here are four photographs from the opening concerts. ‘Glorious Baroque’ continues on November 2nd, 4th and 5th. See also: http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/possum-goes-for-baroque-2/5310.html and http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/an-accomplished-pastiche-with-notes-of-a-fine-merlot-20111030-1mqan.html
Rhodes/Hobson national tour review….
Teddy Tahu Rhodes and David Hobson with pianist Sharolyn Kimmorley are in the midst of a national tour presenting a programme of operatic arias and duets and popular songs. They perform in Sydney on Friday November 4th, in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. This is a review of the tour which commenced in…
‘Metropolis’ reviewed…..
‘…..the demands of this 2 1/2 hour score were like playing two big Mahler symphonies without movement breaks” – Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald. For more, visit: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/symphony-soars-and-saws-in-vivid-saga-20111030-1mqe1.html
Glorious Baroque reviewed….
Check out Peter McCallum’s review of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Glorious Baroque in the SMH. Also, see our post on Possum goes for Baroque for further dates for this concert. http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/possum-goes-for-baroque-2/5310.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/an-accomplished-pastiche-with-notes-of-a-fine-merlot-20111030-1mqan.html
Emma Moore wins ‘The Mathy’
Congratulations to soprano Emma Moore from New South who has won the 2011 Marianne Mathy Award. More at: http://www.aussing.org.au/ASC_Winners.htm
Back to the homeland for ‘the sound of music’
Created in 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ll and set in Salzburg, the musical The Sound of Music will finally be seen for the first time in the city where it is set. The BBC looks at why this phenomenally successful stage show has taken so long to come home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15402618
Latest reviews
Emerald Crossing reviewed by the SMH.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/warming-sounds-on-a-cold-night-20110518-1eszq.html
Review: Sydney Chamber Choir – music with a social impact.
The Sydney Chamber Choir is certainly casting its musical net wide under Paul Stanhope, joining forces in its latest programmes not only with oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros, but also with The Marais Project, formed by viola da gamba player Jennifer Eriksson. The second of its Palm Sunday concerts, conceived under the rubric ‘Lamentations’, featured a…