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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994

173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9

life/arts New dances hardly “raw” DANCE Raw

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 1994 · page 7

GRAEME MURPHY’S mob, the multi-talented and always innovative Sydney Dance Company, called the brief season in the Wharf Studio a choreographic workshop, under the title Raw; but that was…

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The emperor’s new clothes, or a musical con job MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 1994 · page 6

ONLY one work was offered in this concert; the now famous Symphony No 3 by the Polish composer Henryk G6recki. Everyone knows by now how this work has taken off…

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Cricket veterans show they can still use bat and ball

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 1994 · page 20

VETERAN Jewish cricketers showed they had lost little of their ability with bat and ball during last Sunday’s testimonial match for long-serving Harry Black at Weigall Sports Ground…

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Adelaide Festival drama THEATRE Adelaide Festival Furious, A Cheery Soul, Disturbing the Dust

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 March 1994 · page 7

THE director of the Adelaide Festival, Christopher Hunt, deliberately excluded European and American theatrical productions from the festival so he could prove…

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Hungarian music-making MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 March 1994 · page 6

THERE is no mistaking the Hungarian flavour of Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra with its echoes of folk music in all the main themes. And it…

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Vast riches in Rags THEATRE Rags

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 March 1994 · page 5

IF YOU will accept my assessment that Rags is a profoundly moving and, though tragic, still heart-warming and hopeful musical, billed as beginning where Fiddler on the Roof left off, let me ask a few…

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Forget the title, see the play THEATRE To

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 March 1994 · page 7

Peter Morrison I HAVE not the slightest idea why Jim Cartwright called this tightly written, sharply observant, touching, witty and…

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Junior basketBall

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 23

THE popularity of basketball was reflected last week when Maccabi registered six teams in upcoming junior competitions. They will…

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life/arts A Lucullan music feast MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 6

THE ABC concert music programmers are providing an embarrassment of riches these days, perhaps to the point of surfeit. The first in the Mozart Master Series, for example, — a series incidentally which…

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Pictures tell more than the eye sees

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 9

A PICTURE can tell a thousand words and nothing excites a news editor more than an eye-catching photograph with a lot of…

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Winning Day, winning play Theatre a Winning Day

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 8

IT’S WORTH going to Penrith’s Q Theatre to see a quintet of consummately skilled actors at work under a knowing and imaginative director…

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Enough to deaden the heart THEATRE Dead Heart

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 8

FOR ANYONE going to the Eveleigh Railway Yards, Redfern, to fan hopes of a closer understanding between black and white…

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Ukraine concert for local Russian singer

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 5

RUSSIAN Jewish emigre and singer Rita Kagan has been asked to perform at a gala concert in the Ukraine being given in honour of a local Jewish entertainer. Singer Yan Tabachnick is being honoured for his 30…

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Concert in memory of the Holocaust

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 25 March 1994 · page 5

Commemoration of the Shoah in Sydney would bot be complete withour a concert of Holocaust-related music…

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Baby Animals State Theatre March 13

Tharunka · Tuesday 29 March 1994 · page 33

Sydney’s State Theatre once loomed large as one of the city’s leading cinemas: it was where we went to see E.T., Beverly Hills Cop and 101 Dalmatians. Today the theatre is probably best…

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Bitch Dyke Faghag Whore Belvoir Street Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 29 March 1994 · page 34

The first thing I wanted to do after seeing this show was to run onstage and ask Penny Arcade advice. Somehow she seemed like the sort of person that had confronted enough battlezones to…

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Theatre

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 April 1994 · page 1

STANTON’S Lear fulfils expectations....7 FERRIER'S Boswell a fascinating creation…

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Stanton’s Lear fulfils expectations THEATRE King Lear

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 April 1994 · page 7

ONE OF the reasons the Sydney Theatre Company has posted a record figure for its 1994 subscription season must be that there was…

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life/arfs Ferrier’s Boswell needs no defence THEATRE Boswell for the Defence

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 April 1994 · page 6

LEO MCKERN gave a superlative performance of Patrick Edgeworth’s “play in two acts for one actor” in Sydney four years ago…

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Black comic yams THEATRE Tales of Dark Knitting

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 April 1994 · page 6

JOURNALIST Frank Gauntlett, who reviews theatre for the Telegraph-Mirror, is a blackmaned and -bearded lion, a huge, loquacious fellow who tends to write as colourfully as he…

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