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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994

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Dinner-dance in July

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 April 1994 · page 11

THE Gold Coast branch of the National Council of Jewish Women will hold its annual dinner-dance in July. President Barbara Stewart said she hoped the community would prepare for “a ball to remember”…

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Great actor at work THEATRE One Man

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 April 1994 · page 7

BEWARE: genius at work. You might be shocked or revolted down to your Dr Martens; or, more likely, you will die laughing. In either case, you will…

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More thrills, laughs needed THEATRE Blue Murder

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 April 1994 · page 7

BEATRIX Christian’s background, the program tells us, is in film and video; and it shows in her new play, which begins not on the…

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Pope attends Shoah concert

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 April 1994 · page 16

Vatican City: HIGHLIGHTING the Roman Catholic Church’s commitment to the fight against renewed antisemitism, Pope John Paul II…

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Santana Concert

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 April 1994 · page 33

State Theatre April 6, 7, 8 It was 1969, the place was Woodstock and the unknown 20 year old Carlos Santana got on stage and blew everyone away. It is a long…

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Brisbane Symphonic Band

Dutch Weekly · Friday 22 April 1994 · page 29

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Not so Fantastique Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 April 1994 · page 6

IMAGINE, wrote Berlioz, that an artist gifted with vivid imagination first glimpses a woman who embodies the ideal he has long carried in his heart. He falls desperately in love, but by a strange quirk,…

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Apology from dance party promoters

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 April 1994 · page 4

GIANT STEP promoters Diane Oxman and Dalia Abram have apologised to the people who attended their latest party at Mr Good bar in Oxford Street on April 16. Ms Oxman and Ms Abram have organised a number of…

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Shaffer argues revenge or forgiveness Theatre The Gift of the Gorgon

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 April 1994 · page 7

Onemight well argue that Peter Shaffer’s 1992 play, interestingly dubbed “an intellectual thriller” by the Sydney Theatre Company, is full of gimmicks or even, as one UK…

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life/arts Mature play for young adults THEATRE Desire

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 April 1994 · page 6

Young man of the theatre (actor, writer, director) Alex Broun suffered a setback in his career when in 1992 two of his short plays under the title…

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Shades of Hamlet in new musical THEATRE The Villain of Flowers

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 April 1994 · page 6

There is a great deal of merit in this new musical by two young Australians, Anthony Crowley (music, lyrics and book) and Luke Devenish (book), presented…

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arts/leisure Brave new dance world Ballet On Stage Books Ballet On Stage Books Video Review Visual Arts

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 April 1994 · page 5

Gideon Obarzanek is becoming to ballet what Barrie Kosky is to theatre — exciting and ubiquitous. KAREN BOOTH spoke to him before…

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Dance Night

Dutch Weekly · Friday 6 May 1994 · page 26

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Fine programming MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 May 1994 · page 6

IN THIS concert version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet, as played here by the SSO under visiting Manchester-based Chinese conductor En Shao, the seven excerpts are taken from the two…

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Honest, no-frills Lear THEATRE King Lear

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 May 1994 · page 7

BY COMPARISON with the Sydney Theatre Company’s Lear in the Drama Theatre, the New Theatre’s production at Newtown is modest, a nofrills affair, but honest and generally a clear and…

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Concert for Jerusalem

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

ISRAELI music, musicians and orchestras feature in the radio concert for Yom Yerushalayim, arranged by Ida Ferson…

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Theatre

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 1994 · page 1

ELISHA’S Choice is a major step forward..........7…

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Variations on themes Music Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 1994 · page 7

DURING the interval of the first of the current round of Philips Master Series, someone commented that now we were getting to the “real” music, by which he meant Beethoven’s A major…

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life/arts Rich dance diversity in entertaining triple bill BALLET Sydney Dance Company Triple Bill

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 1994 · page 6

THIS richly diverse and entertaining triple bill was sold primarily on the third piece, the late Louis Falco’s Black and Blue, which the Sydney Dance Company…

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Elisha on the right track? THEATRE Choice

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 May 1994 · page 7

MELBOURNE GP, born in Israel but a child migrant to Australia, Ron Elisha might now be termed a prolific playwright, though despite some awards he has never seemed…

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