REVIEW | Melt Banana - The Forum
Posted 3rd December, 2009
With its statues of naked men, ornate columns and illuminated urns, Melbourne's Forum Theatre looks more like a Roman bathhouse than a place you'd go for a night of Japanese noise rock, but with its …
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EDITORIAL | Bravo! Public applauds as festival restores balance
Posted 28th October, 2009
THIS year's Melbourne International Arts Festival had something for everyone and the public response vindicated the new course set by artistic director Brett Sheehy. The box-office figures doubled th…
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FEATURE REVIEW | Audience energy testifies to arts festival's resounding success
Posted 28th October, 2009
The festival that began two weeks ago with the pealing of the city's cathedral, church and school bells came to a close last night with a crescendo of indigenous music, sirens and acrobatic Belgian theatre...
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REVIEW | [Alchemy] Acoustic challenge to overcome
Posted 28th October, 2009
Chamber musicians touring Australian cities encounter markedly different venue acoustics. Musically, this may be advantageous, distinguishing liveperformances from contrived studio perfection.……
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Review | [dirtsong & Joni] Through the past brightly
Posted 28th October, 2009
Joni: A Tribute to the Legendary Joni Mitchell. Hamer Hall, Melbourne. October 23.
Black Arm Band: dirtsong. the Arts Centre, Melbourne. October 24.
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Festival Review | Ringing the changes at the till
Posted 28th October, 2009
Brett Sheehy's first Melbourne International Arts Festival proved great for box office but also sparked debate with his tough, cerebral choices...
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REVIEW | [DIRTSONG] Singing their country back
Posted 28th October, 2009
I FELT the first tears pricking my eyes less than 10 minutes into dirtsong. Lou Bennett was singing the show's title song in her native Yorta Yorta, accompanied by the voices of four other indigenous…
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FEATURE | [JONI: A Tribute to the Legendary Joni Mitchell] Talented interpreters in Joni's place
Posted 28th October, 2009
For Brett Sheehy, artistic director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, an unfulfilled desire was to lure legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell to Australia for the first time since her one tour here in 1983... "I'm mad for Joni, a really big fan, and I tried to get her," Sheehy says. "But her fee was completely unaffordable."
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REVIEW | [Bach Marathon] All stops out for a raging Bachanalia
Posted 28th October, 2009
LAST Sunday, a small crowd of 20 people huddled in the crisp morning air outside the grand entrance of Melbourne Town Hall. By the time the doors opened just before 8am, the number had doubled. Who w…
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review | MIAF: Broadstock's 'Tyranny of Difference'
Posted 28th October, 2009
The most significant contribution of the MSO to the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival was the premiere of Brenton Broadstock's Symphony No. 6, entitled Tyranny of Distance. For this huge wor…
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Review | MIAF: Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross
Posted 28th October, 2009
Tonight's concert formed the centrepiece of a triptych of music presentations inspired by the Crucifixion, performed at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne as part of the 2009 Melbourne Internationa…
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FEATURE | Festivals are proving grounds
Posted 27th October, 2009
There was a time when arts festivals were held elsewhere and we had to go to them rather than have one of our own. Not that long ago, when Perth and Adelaide were about the only options, the summer f…
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