30 July 2025

MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIA PRESENTS MOZART’S CLARINET AT THE CITY RCITAL HALL

John Pollak / 30 July 2025

We may think of ourselves as a sporting nation. If you came to last night’s concert you might come to a different view. On stage three brilliant performers showcased lesser known works of Beethoven and Mozart in a boutique concert

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Literature

EZRA KLEIN AND DREK THOMPSON : ABUNDANCE HOW WE BUILD A BETTER FUTURE

Eli Beverley-Schack / 30 July 2025

A whole new system of thinking about political economy or a simple blueprint to solve all of America’s problems?

In essence, the book examines the reasons behind the lack of progress on ambitious projects in the United States, including those

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Music

NORTH SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORM FRETS AND FOLK

Eli Beverley-Schack / 30 July 2025

The beguiling Dances of Gal`anta are arrangements of existing material that composer Zoltan Kodaly may have encountered as a child in the Hungarian town of Gal`anta ( today Slovakia). One is tempted to say that he simply took the folk …

Literature

LIAR’S GAME: ENFUMAGE ET BOULETAGE

Richard Cotter / 30 July 2025

Walk ins welcome. Defectors encouraged.

It’s not a shingle openly displayed on diplomatic outposts, but the traitor’s gates are always open. Then it’s a process of determining the enfumage, which in espionage parlance means a fake person or …