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Young organ performers delighted and wowed us – the pews were shaking!

by Daniel Brace | Sep 18, 2024

The Scots’ Church International Organ Series | Concert 4: Student Recital September 14, 2024, The Scots' Church, Melbourne, VIC Organ and harpsichord students from Thomas Heywood, Jennifer Chou, Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence Opportunities for performance...

VO’s Sweeny Todd spectacularly gruesome and entertaining

by Daniel Brace | Sep 15, 2024

Victorian Opera | Sweeney Todd September 14, 2024, Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne, VIC This production is spectacularly gruesome and entertaining in the best way. The talent shines on and off the stage, with first mention going to Conductor Phoebe Briggs, the Victorian...

Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night, a striking fusion of music and theatre

by Pepe Newton | Sep 14, 2024

Lights on Theatre | Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night September 13, 2024, Chippen Street Theatre, Chippendale, NSW Making their Australian debut at Sydney Fringe 2024, Lights On Theatre brings a bold new interpretation of Dominick Argento’s 1981 mono-opera Miss Havisham’s...

Exhilarating playing begins the Scots’ International Organ Series

by Daniel Brace | Sep 8, 2024

Scots' International Organ Series | Concert 1 Saturday Sept 7, 2024, The Scots' Church, Melbourne, VIC The performer Asher Watters-Cowan is a talented Australian organist who teaches music in regional and remote communities all over Tropical Far North Queensland and...

A concert for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, generously filled with musical delights

by Guest Reviewer | Sep 8, 2024

Music 4 Medicine September 7, 2024, Wollongong Town Hall, NSW It is a well-documented fact that music, whether performed or actively listened to, acts as a powerful medicine, contributing to an individual’s wellbeing. So it was a completely appropriate congruence that...

Freshness, vitality and wonderful sound from St Pauls’ Messiah

by Daniel Brace | Sep 8, 2024

St Paul's Cathedral | Handel's Messiah September 6, 2024, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne Vic For lots of the boys and girls of the combined choir and no doubt for some in the packed out pews of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne - including my Dad and my step-mum, Gina -...