Music
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Concert review: Symphony Series 4, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
The return of a veteran conductor at the ASO makes it seem almost like the good old days.
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Syncopation and improvisation celebrated to the tune of $1.12 million
The Australian jazz and improvised music sectors have benefitted from recent RISE funding announcements, but will funds flow from festivals…
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Opportunities and Awards Wrap
Call outs for the Helen Anne Bell Award for Women Poets, National Arts and Disability Awards, Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants…
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Theatre review: Durkh a Modne Gloz, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, Melbourne
An engaging fusion of Yiddish poems and cabaret, but the experiment didn't always work.
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Federal Government injects further $35M; Support Act relief extended to all performing arts
Additional funding for Support Act and the Sustainability Fund hopes to keep the live performance sector afloat.
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Creative career progression in the arts
Why leave an organisation you love if a new role (and a new challenge) can be created for you internally?
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Digital performing arts – not just for COVID, but the future
Live arts from home seems like a sugar hit for the times, but evidence shows we’re signing up for longer…
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Australian Performing Arts Exchange moves entirely online
The annual conference and arts market will now take place entirely online.
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Changes made to Playing Australia cautiously welcomed
The Australia Council has reintroduced multi-year investments and streamlined the application process for the Regional Performing Arts Touring program.
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Musical Review: West Side Story, QPAC
Touches of brilliance in this staging of a classic but lacks menace and urgency.