My most recent Ambassador task took me to Foundry 616 in Harris Street at 8.30pm on a Wednesday night (I return to that last detail in a moment). I was there to listen to an up-and-coming band called Funk Engine: Nish Manjunath (tenor sax), Felix Lalanne (guitar),...
One interesting offshoot of the annual Conference of the Musicology Society of Australia was a concert given in the Music Workshop of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music by the Ensemble Offspring, one of Australia’s finest contemporary-music outfits. To entertain the...
For most of the audience sitting in the Music Workshop of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Wednesday 30 September (and repeated the next evening) the experience surely was a ‘first’, for I imagine few of us had previously watched – or even dreamed they would ever...
It was certainly a pleasant surprise to find myself last night in Sydney’s impressive City Recital Hall to hear a program presented by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, flautist Melissa Farrow and guest soloist-conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout. Having never heard...