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Tristan und Isolde, Stuart Skelton, Gun-Brit Barkmin, Ekaterina Gubanova, Boaz Daniel, Ain Anger, WA Symphony Orchestra, Asher Fisch, Perth Concert Hall, August 16 and 19 Since becoming Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of WASO in 2014, Asher Fisch has been assiduously cultivating the orchestra’s sound and profile and ambitiously extending its repertoire and programming. A
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By Daily Review
LISTEN to Aretha Franklin sing You Grow Closer at 15 years old at her father’s New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.
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By Daily Review
Last week, artist David Pledger applied for the position of CEO of funding body, the Australia Council for the Arts, by publishing his application for how to take the organisation into the 21st Century on Daily Review. Pledger wrote a long and thorough brief of his vision to the new chair of the Australia Council, Sam Walsh, the
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By Daily Review
In today’s arts news, there is not much new. Here is a release from the Victorian government: NEW CHAIR FOR MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Leading strategist and corporate consultant Tim Orton will take on the role of Chair of the Melbourne International Arts Festival Board, which will celebrate its 32nd year in October. Minister
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TO: SAM WALSH, CHAIR, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS RE: OPEN APPLICATION FOR THE CEO POSITION, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Dear Sam, Thank you for accepting this application. I have chosen to take this open and public approach to the recruitment process. I thought it only fair to include the whole arts sector whom
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Some voices are like old friends, familiar at once not broken by time or distance. The singing voice that rises and falls to the ocean within is an especial welcome visitor. John Schumann, welcome, come in. Sing us your songs. He is here once more with his Vagabond Crew and the new CD Ghosts and
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In the ’90s, Australia’s love affair with local no frills pub rock bands expanded to embrace “alternative” rockers Silverchair, as well as eclectic acts like Spiderbait and industrial rock rabble rousers, Insurge. There was an alternative rock revolution going on around the world at this time. Doubtless, the most popular act of the weirder fringe
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Sam Walsh took up the chairmanship of the Australia Council last month. The former global head of mining company Rio Tinto is known in arts circles in Perth and London, but little is known about his intentions for the arts as he takes the helm of the country’s most important arts funding body. In this, his first
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By Helen Razer
Across the years, there have been two primary questions prompted by my criticism here at Daily Review. One, “Why are you paying for a menopausal conceit which should surely have been force-fed to rats by now?” The other, “Why won’t she shut up about politics when all I want to read about is art?” The
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There was electricity in the air at Melbourne trio Camp Cope’s performance at the Opera House on Wednesday night. There has been quite a buzz about the group in the media too. The positive press around the all-woman trio is well deserved as the quality of their take on “alternative/indie rock” rises above most of
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