Category: Ross Edwards

  The Sydney Conservatorium of Music presents a Special event: ROSS EDWARDS, MARQUEE 101 at the Verbrugghen Hall. Two weeks ago I attended a contemporary classic music concert at the Sydney Opera House. The composer at the centre of that event was the American, Steve Reich. It was a wonderful, a great experience. Finding this concert’s happening in a ‘remote’ by-the-way note in the Sydney Morning Herald I felt for many reasons, but especially, out of a sense of cultural redress to the Australian composer, that I should go, should attend. As I mentioned in my blog, recording The STEVE…

  Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) present Tour Two: The Hilliard Ensemble at the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House. The Australian Chamber Orchestra in the chimerical secular cathedral of the Concert Hall presented The Hilliard Ensemble in an astute and educative curation of music. The religious origins of some of the repertoire of the internationally esteemed guests, Sheryngham’s “Ah, Gentle Jesu” (Ca. 1500) were highlighted alongside especially commissioned work by Hilliard from a Russian composer, Alexander Raskatov, “Obikhod” (2002 -2003), referencing the traditional liturgical chant books of the Russian Orthodox Church for string orchestra and voices (with a struck bell effect)…