Canberra’s music lovers can look forward to a heady offering of springtime fare, writes Arts in the City columnist HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
"The appreciative opening night audience rode every throw, hold, balance and dismount, with the performers quickly moving on from a couple of minor mistakes." SAMARA PURNELL reviews Circa's quirky production of Duckpond.
Rock stars Jimmy Barnes, Dave Faulkner, Steve Kilbey and Genesis Owusu have all weighed in to put pressure on ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop and the ANU Council to abandon plans to dismantle the university’s School of Music.
Quintessentially a dance musical, A Chorus Line, with a storyline that sees director Zach and his assistant Larry auditioning dozens of hoofers with the purpose of getting an eight-member chorus for a new Broadway show, is coming to The Q.
Another busy week of arts and entertainment beckons. In her latest Artsweek column HELEN MUSA lists the who, when and wheres.
In another coup for artistic director and flautist Ana de La Vega, accordion virtuoso James Crabb and British violinist Anthony Marwood will take the stage at Snow Concert Hall to showcase an interesting combination of instruments.
They're saying the coming side-splitting comedy, Lend Me A Tenor, is the perfect the antidote to Canberra’s winter chills, and they could be right.
One of Australia’s most significant musicians, John Painter, cellist, founder of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and former head of the then Canberra School of Music, died in Canberra on Saturday. He was 92.
Arts in the City is HELEN MUSA's weekly look at arts news around the town.
HELEN MUSA reviews an 'intimate' performance by pianist Ian Munro.
"Mikaela Stafford's Inferno interprets this particular descent into hell as a spiritual journey that we can emerge from, transformed," writes reviewer SOPHIA HALLOWAY.
The ANU campus – particularly the HC Coombs building – is alive with the sounds of neighbour-cultures this month in an extraordinary event, Immersia: Engaging with Asia and the Pacific.
