Talent needs focus THEATRE Falling from Grace
RAYSON seems never to decide what kind of play she wants to write; what she wants to say; what impact she hopes to achieve.... Hold on! Learned…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1995
168 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
On Disc Classical The Papal Concert To Commemorate The Holocaust
THIS year, which has already seen the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, will also be marked by the 50th anniversary of the end of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Vivid creation MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra Die Schopfung by Haydn
DEBATE still rages about the length of time it took for the process of The Creation. According to the Book of Genesis, it was a mere six days, however, the…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →AUJS 1994 the year in pictures
Members of Academy 1994. Jonty Rothstein enjoys AUJS-WA’s Sndowner barbeque…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Quixotic journey THEATRE The African Queen
CECIL Scott Forester’s book The African Queen first appeared in 1935. The United Artists’ film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn,…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →ARTS Bagnold's fertile Garden THEATRE The Chalk Garden
ENID Bagnold, who was born in Kent in 1889, ought to have written more plays. Up until now she has been best…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Solid start for ACO season MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
THE Australian Chamber Orchestra made a solid start to its 1995 season in a strings-only concert featuring internationally renowned baroque cellist Anner…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Arts a Night of comic success THEATRE
THE audience loved it, and every review I’ve read so far has been high in praise of the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Show lacks depth THEATRE What is the Matter with Mary Jane?
THE title of this one-person show comes from a charming, gentle, whimsical poem by A.A. Milne. The relevance is only in Milne’s reference to a…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →De Waart's Mahler testament MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra Mahler's Second Symphony
A MORE significant beginning to a new concert season would be hard to imagine, with Mahler’s cataclysmic Second Symphony: The Resurrection. This…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Moral melodrama THEATRE An Inspector Calls
A LITTLE late in arriving in Sydney because of floods on the Nullabor which stranded the scenery, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain’s…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →ARTS Miller's master THEATRE The Last Yankee
ARTHUR Miller, who would have been one of the greatest 20th century playwrights if he had written nothing but Death of a Salesman, was all of 78 when The…
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Continued on Trove, page 12 →On thin ice MUSIC Sydney Youth Orchestra
JUST a few days after the Sydney Symphony Orchestra gave us Mahler’s Symphony No 2, the Sydney Youth Orchestra offered us his Symphony No 1. A case of Jack being as good…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Shakespeare's Globe Theatre rising form the ashes
A FULL-size recreation of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre — the brainchild of the late actor-director Sam Wanamaker — is taking shape near its original location beside the River…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Williamson back to best THEATRE Dead White Males
THE premiere performance of David Williamson’s enigmatically titled satirical comedy under the Sydney Theatre Company banner, and at the Opera House…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Boys and their Toys: THE 1995 band comp
Aah, its that time of year when people you previously thought were cool just happen to turn up to lectures with a guitar making the excuse that they've "gotta go to practice after this, man”. They talk incessently about how aaamazing the new singer is, how the set is…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →ARTS Classic concerts a hit MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
HECTOR Berlioz’s Les Nuit d'ete (Summer Nights) is one of the most subtle and original song-cycles ever written. The cycle was first published for high voice…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Quality theatre in store Arts notes
IN WHAT has been described as “the theatrical coup of the decade”, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain will bring An Inspector Calls to Queensland’s Performing Arts…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Colourful characters THEATRE The Quartet from Rigoletto
THE TITLE is almost too cute. There are four people running a not-very-successful coffee shop in an inner city cappuccino belt. Two of the four, brothers from an…
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