3 May · 2026 · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen
Every now and then in a concert one encounters music one has never before heard, or even heard of, and sometimes even whose composer has a name one doesn’t know. On certain occasions audiences sit primly and attentively and at the end…
24 Oct · 2019 · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor
Thursday 24 October, 7:30 pm I had guessed perhaps a bit cynically, that this might not be a hugely well attended concert. The balcony was well populated but the stalls were rather thin. The absentees made a serious mistake.
30 Jul · 2016 · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor
Saturday 30 July, 7:30 pm In an account of the music I got to hear in Sydney last December (see review of 4 January 2016), I reported hearing two concerts by Edo de Waart and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; one of them featured Strauss’s…