Last weekend I had the exceptional pleasure of strolling through the Art Gallery of New South Wales, viewing its spring/summer exhibition of over 70 paintings – The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland. The collection spans more than four centuries of art with works from the Renaissance (Botticelli’s The Virgin adoring the sleeping…
Among the numerous tributes marking this year’s 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing on Turkish shores at Gallipoli, The Song Company’s symbolic program, Lamentations for a Soldier, captures the essence of the ANZAC spirit. Lamentations for a Soldier features Turkish brothers Ekrem and Oğuz Mülayim as guest composer and guest artist. Oğuz plays the Turkish flute,…
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….