Ron Ringer

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Ron Ringer

Ron Ringer taught in the UK and Australia before entering the world of publishing, writing, academic editing and – gasp – the corporate world, where he wrote extensively for lawyers and bankers who had great difficulty in making themselves understood to ordinary people. Lovely people and sharp as tacks they were; together we mowed down acres of turgid documents and saved the planet. Amen to that. Ron is also a freelance academic and professional historian whose commissions have included business histories, social and economic histories, church history, architecture and, uhhhhm, bricks and the built environment.

Mood, mind, majesty – a musical panorama from TMO

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Beethoven 7 March 9, 2025, Marrickville, NSW Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture This first concert in the TMO’s 2025 series commenced with Felix Mendelssohn’s The […]

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Bravo to this wonderful choir and Brett Weymark

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Rachmaninoff’s Vespers July 20, 2024, Sydney Town Hall This reviewer found tonight’s performance of Rach’s Vespers somewhat problematic. More on this later. Many of us immersed […]

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A Hollywood blockbuster of an evening with TMO at Riverside

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Hollywood in Concert October 14, 2023, Riverside Theatres Parramatta For more than a century the movies created by the Hollywood studio system have helped to shape […]

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WSO’s fantastical sounds, orchestral

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Fantastique 30 July, 2023, The Concourse Chatswood It is entirely fitting that home for the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra is the Concourse Concert Hall in the centre […]

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Three encores for TMO and Russoniello’s latest triumph

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Carnivals and Adventures May 28, 2023, Marrickville Town Hall Antonín Dvořák, Carnival Overture Dvořák’s Carnival Overture forms one part of the trilogy of overtures, “Nature, Life […]

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Bel a cappella – All things made new…

Bel a cappella | A New Song Sunday 30 April 2023, St Augustine’s Balmain Sydney has many amateur chamber choirs from which to choose, and Bel a cappella is up […]

Review: The Metropolitan Orchestra, surely one of Sydney’s finest…

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Reminiscing 5 March, 2023, Marrickville Town Hall First, the good news: last Sunday TMO worked its magic at Marrickville Town Hall. Now, the bad: they won’t […]

NSSO: Joy, pathos, deep reflection, glory and sheer exuberance

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | A Hebrew Celebration Featuring Bel a cappella 24 September, 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The notion of music as theatre is something that’s always interested me. […]

Listen up! An experience that grabbed you by the eyes

Ensemble Offspring | Listen up! Sunday September 11, 6pm | Cell Block Theatre   Unfamiliarity is my friend. Most of us were brought up on music of a classical nature […]

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En pointe with The Metropolitan Orchestra

The Metropolitan Orchestra | String Serenade August 28, 2022, Marrickville Town Hall Under the baton of the remarkably talented conductor, Sarah-Grace Williams, The Metropolitan Orchestra excelled itself in last Sunday […]

Salut! Baroque – Music like this sets us free

Salut! Baroque | The New World Sunday 14 Aug, 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Artists: Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Sally Melhuish & Hans-Dieter Michatz – Recorder Stan Kornel, Bridgitte Holden – […]

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