Concerts
WHAT IS the reason for so few concerts in the Folk Centre? A short while ago the Sydney Jewish Folk Centre organised a…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
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THEATRE Le Chevaler d’Olmédo, à l’Odéon
Entre Inès, de Médina, et dm Alonso, chevalier d'OUnédo, l'étincelle de la passion a failli avec la dévorante puissance d'un coup de foudre. Bien nés, jeunes et beaux, Os n'en sont pas moins ta…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Elegies set sombre mood MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
A REMARKABLY busy musical week saw a mini-invasion of visitors from the former Soviet Union. In the first concert of the season by the ACO, its special guests were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Podium Olympics with the Sso Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE MEMBERS of the visiting Olympic evaluation committee couldn’t have failed to be impressed by the first concert of the SSO’s subscription season. Nowhere in their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Comic view of the advertising world THEATRE The Adman
THIS IS the Sydney premiere season of Melbourne actor/writer Robert Hewett’s comic look at the thrust and parry, the back-stabbing, the sex and sexism that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Now this is cultural enrichment THEATRE My Name is Such and Such
THIS IS a brilliant little admixture of fantasy and reality, a new Australian play, but not one that could have been written by a native of this country. This is cultural…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The urge to see ugliness all around us THEATRE The Pitchfork Disney
THE DOWNSTAIRS at BeIvoir Street has the somewhat dubious honour of hosting the Australian premiere season of prolific East End (London) writer Philip Ridley’s…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →“Sky” and “Double Bass” Glen Street Theatre, French’s Forest
One person plays tend to be too demanding on both the performer and the audience. The atmosphere is very intimate and emotionally charged, and…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Treasurable youngsters in first rate MUSIC Sydney Youth Orchestra
IT’S A measure of the quality and enthusiasm of the playing that I don’t have to make any allowances for the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →entertainment “Tombstone” of earnest sobriety and significance MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
TOMBSTONES. This is how Shostakovich described his symphonic works and there is no doubt that his Symphony No 10 in E minor is his enduring monument. It is, also without doubt, one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cummings finds Jewish actors THEATRE
PRODUCER Christopher Cummings seemed to be essaying the impossible when he declared that he intended to cast his Bondi Pavilion production of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Top Williamson play stands the test THEATRE The Perfectionist
IN MY book, The Perfectionist must rate with Money and Friends as David Williamson’s best work since Travelling North and one of the best of his long and…
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the age of 16, one year younger than Natalie Chee is at present. But, although the transition from the slow movement into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Opera upstaged OPERA & JAZZ Joan Carden and James Morrison in Concert
THE COMBINATION of Australia's No 1 soprano and top Jazz trumpeter was an intriguing mixture of performing styles—while opera largely adheres to the printed note, jazz has a greater degree…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sondheim triumphs in psycho jungle THEATRE Into the Woods
IN THIS town of wonderful entertainment choices you may have your fairy tales sugar-coated (The Australian Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty) or share Stephen Sondheim’s bitter-pillish black…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →UIA 1993 strikes chord in community More campaign pictures, LS/14
Jewisn Agency ooara of governors chairman Mendel Kaplan (left) addressed seven UIA campaign functions, including the President’s Dinner. He is pictured at the dinner with Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Selwyn Franklin, Eileen Franklin and UIA federal president Frank Lowy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thousands turn out for Uia More Campaign Pictures, Nv/2, Ls/8
A large crowd turned out for the East-West Communities evening; among the dignitaries were from left: Michael Faktor, UIA NSW chairman Malcolm Cohen, guest speaker Mendel Kaplan, chairman of the Jewish Agency board of governors, and function co-ordinators Devorah Lees and Bernard Jacoby…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elisabeth Drive, Bondi Beach. Tel: 368-1119
In Duty Bound by Ron Elisha — what happens in the Berkowitz family when son Jack announces that he intends to “marry out”. Cast includes Zika Nester,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Into the Woods Sydney Theatre Company Director- Wayne Harrison Music and Lyrics-stephen Sondhiem Book by James Lapine
INTO THE WOODS, the latest production by the SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY is a musical. Therefore, as far as I was concerned, it already had a strike…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Empty vessels...! Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
THANKS TO Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the opening of Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra has become one of the best-known of all classical…
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