Lynne's Theatre Notes

  Another March Dance review for Dance Informa  https://dancemagazine.com.au/2021/03/the-mysterious-sounds-of-digital-at-march-dance/ The mysterious ‘Sounds Of Digital’ at March Dance         COMMENTS Online, as part of  March Dance. 17 March 2021. Sounds Of Digital  is a striking interactive event, part film, part workshop developed by Adrina Petrosian and Jon Saroglu. It is part sound and visual journey immersed in a nature landscape and partly what the viewer does in their own environment – a combination of electronic sounds and ideas. The accompanying workshop helps us ground ourselves observing our body, allow the space for mind and body to connect and use our breath to commune with our surroundings, focusing on being present in the moment. The film has a voiceover that questions our sense of self and identity – who am ‘I’ and what do we mean when we say ‘I’?, how we connect with the universe, explore our body, and how it interacts with ...

  This was part of March Dance .Here's what I thought for Dance Informa  https://dancemagazine.com.au/2021/03/a-small-spectacle-a-glimpse-of-an-artist-coping-during-covid-lockdown/ ‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown         COMMENTS 7 – 9 March 2021.  Online, as part of March Dance.  A Small Spectacle  is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown in a small inner-city share house in collaboration with Gabriel Sinclair (composer, musician) and Aidan Bondfield (musician). ‘A Small Spectacle’ with Phaedra Brown. Mixing dance, architecture, costume, sculpture and sound,  A Small Spectacle  examines the concept of what is ‘spectacular’. It also explores the nature of (self) identity and the use of interior domestic space and how the body is  perceived. The costumes have been remodelled from what was in the house, and the house itself has also been reworked for the event, look...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/bach-and-beyond-australian-chamber-orchestra-studiocast/#more-81754 CLASSICAL MUSIC BACH AND BEYOND : AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA STUDIOCAST 8 APRIL 2021   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT This was a very striking and unusual concert for the wonderful Australian Chamber Orchestra led by the brilliant  Richard Tognetti . This is the latest in the marvellous series of studiocasts with photography by director  Matisse Ruby  and her team of  Tyson Perkins  and  Drew English. Photographed in black and white, the concert began dramatically with Tognetti, his back to us, striding to the podium. JS BACH – (arr. Tognetti) The Musical Offering, BWV1079) opened the program – the strings were sharp and angry at first but then they changed to slower and shimmering, rich and meandering, delicate with a bright flute ( Emmanuel Pahud ) darting and leaping. JS BACH’S – St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Erbarme dich was very en...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/pinchgut-opera-in-montiiverdis-vespers/#more-81634 \ CLASSICAL MUSIC ,   MUSIC ,   OPERA PINCHGUT’S OPERA : MONTEVERDI’S ‘VESPERS’ @ CITY RECITAL HALL 5 APRIL 2021   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT The live audience was ecstatic with thunderous applause for Pinchgut’s magnificent, finely burnished and lushly detailed performance of  Monteverd i’s VESPERS. Fortunately you can catch it online at the moment until 1 May, 2021. Written in 1610,  Monteverdi’s  VESPERS ( Vespro della Beata Vergine   )  is now rarely heard.  Monteverdi  (1567 – 1643) was comfortable with both Baroque and Renaissance music and is regarded as one of the great composers. He wrote music for the church, temporal works and among other things, opera as well. In his Vespers,  Monteverdi  energetically transformed ‘traditional’ Renaissance polyphony into strikingly advanced styles.  Musically and vocally the...

 https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/australian-brandenburg-orchestra-handels-rome/#more-81452 CHOIR MUSIC ,  CLASSICAL MUSIC ,  MUSIC AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA : HANDEL’S ROME : AN EXQUISITE CONCERT 1 APRIL 2021   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT A musically lush, lavish, very powerful concert exquisitely played. Under Paul Dyer’s direction the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra gave a very moving musical feast, at times sombre, at other times joyously explosive. Corelli , a renowned violinist, wrote  Twelve Concerti Grossi  now today viewed as the best and earliest examples of this style.  In his  Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No.  4 adagio with its exquisite, pulsating ebbing and flowing strings,  you could almost hear the tears drop with  Paul Dyer’s  harpsichord rippling. The allegro, however, was bright and joyous with a dancelike atmosphere and, at times, an almost galloping melody with frantic strings...