Evie Apfelbaum is a teacher of Mathematics. She is an avid reader and member of a book club that has been meeting regularly for almost 20 years! She enjoys bridge, good food, walks and coffee with her friends and is passionate about music and playing with her granddaughter.
I spent a delightful hour in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on Saturday (23/8).
It wasn’t the usual hushed, reverential audience anticipating the first chord one usually meets in this auditorium.
Rather, it was a …
We are lucky to live in a city with so many opportunities to listen to great music, whatever ones preferred genre! In this rich landscape Sydney Chamber Choir is one of our great treasures.
Established in 1975 as the …
Hisashi Kashiwai is a dentist from Kyoto in Japan. He seems to be well known as a writer for television and magazines in Japan and has written extensively on his hometown.’ The Restaurant of Lost Recipes’ is his second …
Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles
Soloist: Ying Fang (Soprano)
Program: Im Sommerwind -Anton Webern
5 songs – Richard Strauss
Symphony no 4 – Gustav Mahler
Concert date 25th September 2024
This was a wonderful program, centred on late romantic Viennese music …
Joshua Han seems to be quite an extraordinary young man. At the ripe old age of six, he was awarded his first gold medal in the city of Sydney Eisteddfod. At the age of 10, yes 10, he earned his …
I have just purchased the most delightful book. The title kind of gives it away -yes, it is about music and is a compact guide for adults embarking on that scary journey – learning or relearning a musical instrument. Being …
Lucia Osborne Crowley is a British born, Australian writer. She is a journalist, essayist and author as well as a legal researcher. She has contributed articles to the Guardian as well as Meanjin and is currently a legal journalist for …