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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1987

218 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 11

Concert for NS elderly

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 May 1987 · page 17

The recent concert organised by North Shore Temple Emanuel registered a record…

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Let's Band Together

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 May 1987 · page 38

' Dear Miss/Sir Last edition of Tharunka contained a request for articles about new band/unsigned bands or independent…

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POPular dance muSICK

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 May 1987 · page 38

What's this I hear, Tharunka is biased against DANCE MUSIC. Don't you realise how important dance music is to the fabric of society. Whereby a…

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Premier guest at Moriah ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 May 1987 · page 13

NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth will be guest of honor at this year’s Moriah College Debutantes’ Ball. Organised by the Moriah…

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Viennese Theatre remembered with scholarship gift to NIDA

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 May 1987 · page 13

The now defunct Viennese Theatre, which for more than 30 years entertained a bilingual English-German audience with plays and cabaret, has established a scholarship in its name at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)…

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Theatre Times Sheer joy in Fats Waller tribute show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 May 1987 · page 19

The entrepreneurs call it “the red hot Fats Waller Musical Show”; you might prefer to dub it…

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BOOKS Symphonic symbolism HAPHILHARMONIT (The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) by Michael Ohad. Jerusalem, Keter, 290 pp., including appendices. No price stated

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 May 1987 · page 18

WHILE other Jewish children were being dragged to synagogue on Saturday mornings, my mother took, me to Carnegie Hall to hear the…

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Top pianist’s Sydney concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 May 1987 · page 19

Brilliant Perth-based pianist David Helfgott will perform in concert with the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra (ESO), under the baton of John Hopkins, in an all-Russian program in the…

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Don Lane in NSW b'ball challenge

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1987 · page 32

The Lanky Yankie, television personality Don Lane, will appear for NSW Maccabi Veterans’ basketball team in an interstate challenge match at Alexandria…

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Lawyer’s theatre love led to play production

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1987 · page 15

The connection between the law and theatre could not be as distant as it seems with Sydney’s Gary Penny and Melbourne’s Aaron Zaitman as examples…

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Theatre Times Australian play becomes a timeless classic

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1987 · page 17

Interest in the Ensemble’s production of Alan Seymour’s 1960 vintage Australian classic The One Day Of The Year lay inevitably in the question, “would it stand the test of time?”. It did…

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Telling the story The East Jerusalem Arabic theatre company, Al-Hakawati, is mounting its most ambitious production to date. Daniel Gavron reports

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1987 · page 15

AFTER YEARS of trying in different ways to portray the Palestinian condition, Al-Hakawati has decided to tackle the root of the problem: the…

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BOOKS Group encounters Dance, Dialogue, and Despair: Existential Philosophy and Education for Peace in Israel by Haim Gordon. The University of Alabama Press. 250 pp. $25.95. Martin Buber and the Eternal by Maurice Friedman. New York, Human Sciences Press, Inc. 191 pp. $16.95

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1987 · page 18

“ALL ACTUAL life is encounter,” said Martin Buber, who asserted that a person develops and realizes his personality mainly through the…

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PHANTARAMA Origins of Moving Pictures

Filmnews · Monday 1 June 1987 · page 9

Currently at the Museum of Victoria in the Barry Room is Phantarama, an exhibition which deals with the origins of moving pictures, tracing the discoveries…

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Confidence boost for b’ball “tests”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1987 · page 25

NSW Maccabi men’s basketball team’s confidence received a boost just prior to this holiday weekend’s interstate challenge against Ajax-Maccabi (Victoria) when it…

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Theatre Times Coward’s last work makes superb show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1987 · page 19

Noel Coward In Two Keys started life in London in 1966 as Suite In Three Keys, two one-acters and one full-length play, making a two-night program. Though Coward himself…

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Haifa Theatre in Duesseldorf To The Editor of The Jerusalem Post

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1987 · page 23

Sir, - As a sincere friend of Israel active in the twinning of Duesseldorf and Haifa, I was disconcerted to learn that the performance of the…

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CONCERT Funereal Brahms German Requiem

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1987 · page 18

I certainly like my Brahms, but there are some performances which ally me to the…

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Royal Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1987 · page 18

Sydney-born pianist Sarah Grunstein will play before Prince Charles and Lady Diana at Kensington Palace, London, on July 22. Prince Charles requested…

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Theatre Times Rare chance to see the Bard’s Pericles

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 June 1987 · page 17

For its third production of the 1987 season, the Sydney Theatre Company is giving us the rare opportunity of seeing one of Shakespeare’s later pieces, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. It is an epic,…

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