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Thoroughbass | Persuasion

Characters in Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ burst forth in song Composer Diana Blom creates a musical collage that expresses the characters of Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Sir Walter, Elizabeth, Mary, Charles, cousin William and Lady Russell. Scored for only two voices – high and low and accompanied by piano, and with words by Diana Weston and quotations from Austen herself –

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persuasion thoroughbass
Pepe Newton

Thoroughbass | Persuasion

Characters in Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ burst forth in song Composer Diana Blom creates a musical collage that expresses the characters of Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Sir Walter, Elizabeth, Mary, Charles, cousin William and Lady Russell. Scored for only two voices – high and low and accompanied by piano, and with words by Diana Weston and quotations from Austen herself –

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Clive Lane + Marjory Ellsmore

Thoroughbass concert – making known the unknown, re-discovering the forgotten and creating the new

Thoroughbass | Set in Stone: Music for two keyboards 13 July, 2024 Margaretta Cottage, Glebe, NSW Performers: Diana Weston & Michael Tsalka This was the first of a series of three concerts in historic stone buildings (‘Set in Stone’), with the two remaining concerts at St John’s College in Camperdown on Friday July 19th at 6.30 pm, and St Jude’s

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Jennifer Foong

CD Review: Thoroughbass | Miss Lucy Havens Requests…

A Scottish lass named Lucy Havens who migrated to Sydney with her family in 1839 was in possession of a large portfolio of sheet music, comprising of some 2,500 works, currently in the safe keeping of Sydney Living Museums. It forms the basis of the album by Australian ensemble Thoroughbass entitled Miss Lucy Havens Requests (the pleasure of your company).

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Heidi Hereth

Review: Thoroughbass | Forgotten Songs – An Unforgettable Experience

Thirsty for experiencing a live concert, the socially-distanced audience eagerly awaited the Thoroughbass concert on Saturday Oct 17, Forgotten Songs, in the beautiful hall at Mosman Art Gallery. Opening with Debussy’s Ariettes Oubliées (from which the concert takes its title in the English translation), soprano, Danielle Grant, and Diana Weston at the piano took us through the subtle emotions expressed

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Phillipa van Helden

Thoroughbass’s Toybox is sure to entrance young & old alike

Ahead of Thoroughbass’s performances of Claude Debussy’s The Toybox at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta, classikON spoke to the group’s Director, Diana Weston. Thoroughbass is “an early music ensemble on an odyssey”, whose “mission is to uncover the unusual, the recently re-discovered, and to see familiar things in a new light” – their “quest is to find the colour in

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Thoroughbass’ The Viole Divine

Focused on the viola da gamba, with works by Rameau, Bach and Marais. Three instruments were featured, gamba (Shuang Ng), violin (Tara Hashanbuoy) and harpsichord (Diana Weston).

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ThoroughBass: Music to tap your foot to!

ThoroughBass, Mosman, 16 November 2014 ThoroughBass, a Sydney ensemble founded in 2009 and which performs lesser-known baroque and contemporary music, served up wonderful musical fare on Sunday afternoon in another of the St Luke’s Concert Series in Mosman. Diana Weston led from the harpsichord, and was joined by Anna Fraser (soprano) and Dr Shaun Ng (viol da gamba and baroque

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John O'Brien

Love and Lamentation: A Farewell Concert, Sophia Mitchell

A farewell concert can be both a joyous and sad occasion. On Saturday 24 May there was a lot of joy, much love and a suitable modicum of lamentation in the room prior to the departure of mezzo soprano, Sophia Mitchell, to undertake further study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Sophia Mitchell had a cough. It may

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Lliane Clarke

ThoroughBass: Men of Moment

I never knew St Luke’s Mosman was such a wonderful space to be in with its minimal modern architecture and simple dianabol for sale in usa how to get anabolic blue and gold semi circular chancel at the end. The women of Thoroughbass presented “Men of Moment” at St Luke’s and on a wet and stormy Sunday afternoon it was

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Blue Skies, Magpies & Goldfish

This is quite an eclectic disc which grows on you with repeated listening. If you fancy extending your horizons and sound world then buy it – you’ll be rewarded.

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Kate Tribe

Bringing together the senses in one production to help your memory

On July 27, there will be an innovative production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten opera, with a specially produced fragrance. It’s a wonderful concept and reminds me of a business bootcamp where they encouraged us to think of the emotion your business is trying to create, then identify another product, in a different industry, that creates the same emotion. Bringing them

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