We have 10 x double passes to give away to see THE CONCERT – A film by Radu Mihaileanu. Starring Alexei Guskov, Melanie Laurent, Dmitry Nazarov and Miou Miou
Opening at #1 at the French cinema box-office, The Concert is pure entertainment – a warm-hearted, joyous story filled with great wit and humanity. The stirring finale set against Tchaikovsky’s Concerto is simply magnificent.
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April 22, 2010
Win a movie pass to The Concert
April 22, 2010
Being 7-months pregnant in the Song Company – Ruth McCall
You know how a single man walking a dog in a park instantly attracts women? Women see the two of them together and assume he must be the caring, supportive type (depending perhaps on the breed of dog). Being 7-months pregnant in the Song Company is a ‘middle-aged-female-audience-member’ magnet. They come up to me and positively beam. Then come the three questions; “When are you due?”, “Do you know if it is a boy or a girl?”, “Is it your first?”. There are no wrong answers to these questions. I can say anything and my reward is a bigger smile.
April 22, 2010
Brisbane show – a celebration of Chinese culture
The Song Company will be joining up with Brisbane’s Golden Orb Ensemble for a celebration of Chinese culture in Australia. No less than 18 composers have contributed to this event presented by the Brisbane Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University as part of Encounters.
April 22, 2010
Meet Jehan Kanga and hear him tweet
2010 is the inaugural year of the Song Company Young Artists Program and we are thrilled to be working with the next wave of Australian talent. This month, we talk to Jehan Kanga … a man of science, music and commerce and very much a man after our own musical heart.
April 20, 2010
Les Murray and the Song Company
Join us on May 6th for a very special concert …
This Aurora Festival event is a real treat for music and poetry lovers as we present Song Company’s growing oeuvre of work based on Les Murray, our most prominent and internationally celebrated poet.
April 20, 2010
Join us in Canberra
We will be performing extensively at The 16th Canberra International Music Festival next month:
“Imagine hearing Song Company perform Bach at the opening gala concert as well as Song Company’s rendition of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers on 23 May. In between there are concerts with music by Arvo Part and John Tavener (yes, his massive Veil of the Temple – something you have to hear in order to believe…) We also look forward to the world premiere of a magnificent new vocal work by Ross Edwards: Sacred Kingfisher Psalms on May 22. Wish us strength and good luck!” Roland Peelman
April 15, 2010
Song Company fundraiser: Aboriginal Art Sale
The Song Company is joining with Ars Musica Australis to present an exciting new collection of Aboriginal art works for sale from the Central Desert of the Northern Territory.
The works range in size and are priced from as little as $30 through to $20,000.
Many of the works would make a great addition to an existing collection or a firm foundation for those just starting out.
April 8, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald review
Ethereal sounds of an Indian Easter
Gethsemane, The Song Company and Synergy Percussion, City Recital Hall, March 31
Reviewed by Peter McCallum, SMH April 2nd, 2010
Each year at this time for several years, the Song Company has presented a music, theatre and dance project exploring the great wealth of Easter music in new and reflective contexts.
Gethsemane, devised and written by the composer Gerard Brophy, alternated musical settings of biblical texts with his evocative prose narratives describing life in Calcutta; one hesitates to call them cameos since the decorative implications of the word scarcely encompass the poverty they captured.
Ranging over a day, and with the same alertness to small detail one finds in Brophy’s scores, they tell of children picking over rubbish, of …
April 1, 2010
Gethsemane -what did you think?
Sydney City Recital Hall performance – 31st March, 2010:
Salutations on a magnificent performance tonight! I LOVED the work- it was mysterious, uniquely haunting and rivetting throughout.
Christina! I loved the sensitivity you brought to your role from the melismatic dialogue with the voices to the intense peaks of rapture and rupture AND you didn’t tell me you also played conch shell – you ARE a remarkable woman!
Clive – wow! – loved his enactment of the story, dramatic rhythm was perfection and Martin’s work is SO idiosyncratic in the way he takes particular phrases and weaves his body into an entire evolution of gesture and meaning. His solo was mesmeric and transcendental – my consciousness melted into the sublime horizon.
Thank you, thank …
