Features
Inspired by Jack Liebeck, we survey classical music’s oddest, most grisly deaths.
by Clive Paget
The pressures and funding models reshaping arts organisations’ programming.
by Samuel Cairnduff
Yve Blake discusses her radical reimaging of Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare.
by Lenny Ann Low
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Soundings
Interview
British viola virtuoso Lawrence Power chats about Isles of Light, the concert he has programmed, directs and performs in for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and why he believes there’s such a strong viola tradition in the British Isles.
by Steve Dow
on the record
This month features Mahler from Bychkov and Runnicles, Pappano’s Planets, a Beethoven project completed, and choral discoveries from a distant branch of the Bach family tree.
by Clive Paget
Cutting Edge
We talk to composer Alex Chilvers, pipa player Lulu Liu and harpsichordist Anthony Abouhamad about Tang Suite, a new work inspired by ancient pipa manuscripts discovered in China’s Mogao Caves.
by Paolo Hooke
classical music
A new album uses period instruments and imaginative arrangements to explore the songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan as they might have been heard in their day. We talk with its conductor John Andrews.
by Clive Paget
THEATRE
Actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison talk about Harrison’s new play Bennelong in London.
by Steve Dow
Books
★★★★½ This searingly frank tell-all memoir celebrates a true original, warts and all.
by Diana Simmonds
Film
★★★★ This dark but memorable German film turns a lens on the cruelties suffered by related women across four time periods.
by Jason Blake
In the Limelight
Coda
Guy Noble's Soapbox
As a young pianist, Guy Noble played at a fair few corporate gigs and opera fundraisers. He explains why they were some of his most depressing experiences as a performer.
Playing Up
Soon to play with the Australian World Orchestra, Linda Stuckey, Associate Principal Piccolo with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, explains why the piccolo is such a dangerous instrument.
World Premiere
Anne Cawrse knew little about Louis XIV and hadn’t been to Versailles when she was approached about turning Kathryn Purnell’s epic poem about the Sun King into a song cycle. She explains why she said yes.
5 Questions For
One of the biggest names in Australian cabaret, the award-winning comedian, singer and writer discusses his debut program as Artistic Director of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
My Music
Currently Head of Music Education at Penrith Conservatorium of Music in NSW, the multi-instrumentalist, neuroscientist and self-confessed over-committer discusses his fascinating journey and belief that music can change lives.
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