Its always a thrill to catch the beginning of a season performances by the premier period-instrument group specialising in the repertoire of the late Baroque and early classical eras. This ensemble, the Australian Haydn Ensemble (AHE) takes its name from …
Coming to grips with the memories and lessons of America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a task that would be difficult to better than Leo Tolstoy’s novella HADJI MURAT which reports on the the 30-year war between the …
Above photo : Tony Buck, Lloyd Swanton & Chris Abrahams.. Photo courtesy Beat magazine
In August 2018, shortly after succeeding the late John McBeath as The Australian’s jazz reviewer, I reviewed The Necks’ album Body, the group’s 20…
AKERVINDA is the Swedish women’s quartet bringing us wonderful authentic and adapted Nordic folk songs. The group is named for the Swedish flower, Åkervinda, and most of the songs evoked the importance of nature in their culture.
Åkervinda was one …
News of Grace Jones’s show on the 28 February came with a shuddering caveat. Will it clash with the Mardi Gras Parade, in a sick replay of the Kylie Minogue debacle?
Here we are, 20 bodies length from the stage …
Above pic : Peter Locke. Photo credit Sally Glass
This interview is the twenty-fourth in a series of interviews with a number of Australia’s most distinguished jazz artists, which were published monthly in Loudmouth, the e-zine edited by Dr Richard …
Above – James Morrison… Photo credit Clear Image Photography
A sold-out concert on February 21, 2026, attended by an audience of over 700 people, at the lovely art-deco theatre Hayden Orpheum in Cremorne, confirmed once again James Morrison’s unparalleled standing …
Mahler’s powerful orchestral forces are best experienced live and where better than the gala opening of Simone Young leading the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducting Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Earth, a vast and moving Symphony to open the 2026 season.…
It was a full house at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall last night. The rows were filled to the back for the return to Australia of the highly popular French concert pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet presented by SSO, the …
Above : Kate Golla and Allan Clayton on set. Featured image- Allan Clayton journeys around the light box set, the piano and in front of Fred Williams’ artwork. Photography by David Cox.
For lucky me, this recent evening at Musica …