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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1979

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THEATRE Easy for Miss Kerr

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1979 · page 14

Playing the role of a sweet, middle-aged woman of the 1900s is a piece of cake for Deborah Kerr in the…

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Australian at Israel ’Bible in Dance’ confab

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1979 · page 19

Thanks to the efforts of the Australia-Israel Cultural Exchange Fellowship, a Sydney-based non-Jewish dancing teacher represented Australia at the recent International Seminar on the Bible in Dance in Jerusalem…

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Russian Red Army concert protests justified

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1979 · page 3

A claim that Jewish people should not have protested against the Red Army Choir during its recent visit to Australia was dismissed as “nonsense” last week by the chairman of the…

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Jnf Coronation Ball at Central

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1979 · page 5

Winner of the JNF Queen Competition will be announced at the Coronation Ball at the Goodman Hall,…

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Soccer Ball and a Little “Hush”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1979 · page 28

There have been a couple of unhappy soccer officials because of what was reported in the AJT…

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Theatre-in-home new charity plan

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1979 · page 22

An innovative concept of fundraising has been established by four Sydney actors. Called Theatre-In-The-Home, the company is part…

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Singer Back for Abc Concert Tour

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1979 · page 18

Sydney-born mezzosoprano, Susan Kessler, is returning to Australia from London for a concert tour with the ABC next year. Details of the season…

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“Greatest” jazz band in concerts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 15

Communal identity Brian Nebenzahl has teamed up with former Sydney art gallery director Kym Bonython to present the world’s greatest jazz band in Sydney, Melbourne and…

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Aim is first class theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 16

‘The Sunny South” by George Darrel is the inaugural production of the Sydney Theatre…

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Elizabethan Theatre Trust Prediction of best year yet

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 13

The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust is heading in to 1980 and its second quarter century with what promises to be its biggest ever entre-preneurial program…

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Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 19

Opera Singer Vivienne Mordo will give a concert for “Operation Wheelchairs” at the B’nai…

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Leading U.S. soprano for ABC concert series

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 17

American Jewish coloratura soprano, Deborah Cook, will give concerts in all States when she visits Australia next year as a guest artist for the Australian Broadcastjing Commission’s concert series. Born in Philadelphia, she…

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Ballet Tolstoy in Dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 December 1979 · page 15

Tolstoy’s classic drama should translate well to the world of dance and music even though there is a lack of continuity in the music of Tchaikovsky combined by Guy…

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Theatre Irish Dream

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 December 1979 · page 15

The New Theatre continues to present plays of social relevance within a highly dramatic and…

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Carrying Baby and the Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 December 1979 · page 24

Mick Goulbum made an interesting claim when he said that Maccabi Tenpin Club, now in its 18th…

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New Theatre holiday goodies

Tribune · Wednesday 19 December 1979 · page 10

New Theatre wishes to advise Tribune readers of its interesting productions appearing before Christmas and over January 1980, while the fatigued Tribune collective refreshes itself before next year's assault on…

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