Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly round-up of all-things-arts around Canberra.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
This was the only Canberra performance for ANU School of Music guest violist, the Dresden-based Tahlia Petrosian. It felt like an evening of hands-on music-making, says reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Canberra comic artist Jon Sommariva is one half of the duo that has won the Children’s Book Council of Australia's “Older Readers Book of the Year”.
"This was an extraordinarily well-programmed concert that allowed audience, instrumentalists and conductor Alexander Briger, to run the full gamut of musical experience," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
There was a note of informality on Wednesday morning when the 15-musician line-up from Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra rehearsed at Snow Concert Hall before setting out on their Australian tour from the ACT.
The musically knowledgeable Governor-General of Australia, David Hurley, was on hand on Wednesday, to launch the 2024 season of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in fine style at the ANU School of Music.
Here's "Artsweek", arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly wrap of all things arts around Canberra.
Canberra-born classical guitarist Rupert Boyd, his wife Laura and son Milo are enjoying a few private days with his parents and all his siblings for the first time in four years.
Several high-profile Canberra-related music names appeared at the top of the list in the 2023 Art Music Awards, hosted by Monica Trapaga in Sydney on Tuesday night.
The mediaeval town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany is world-famous because of its legendary pied piper, but it also numbers among its native daughters one of Australia's (and Canberra’s) leading photographers – Heide Smith.
HELEN MUSA leads this week's "Arts in the City" column with the news that "The Simon & Garfunkel Story" is coming to town.
CAPO, the Capital Arts Patrons' Organisation is planning to paint the town red when it holds its 40th "ruby” anniversary gala at Albert Hall in mid-November.
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