HEAR HEAR! (OR DID WE?)

PREVIEW Diomira, The Australian Art Orchestra, The Substation, Newport Saturday, October 7 at 8pm. 1 hr, no interval Tickets $49 ($39 concession) If you are up for a challenge, members of the Australian Art Orchestra are ready to play with our perceptions of what we hear and what we imagine we have heard at The Substation tonight. Sparked off by one of the imaginary lands in … Continue reading HEAR HEAR! (OR DID WE?)

FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS

REVIEW Still Night: Music in Poetry, Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday 25 November 2016, 7pm There is a gradually growing section in our hallway book shelves that contains poetry, yet it is all too rarely visited. In that respect it is like death, which we too often avoid confronting until it is thrust upon us. So much can be conveyed in poetry if we give … Continue reading FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS

AN ITALIAN COLLABORATION

ALBUM LAUNCH: The Monash Sessions: Enrico Rava, Thursday 30 October at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne It has become a tradition for Monash University to arrange for its students of improvised music to learn from some of the world’s great jazz musicians, either by having them visit or by taking the students overseass. The results of these working sessions have resulted in significant recordings … Continue reading AN ITALIAN COLLABORATION