John Pollak did Arts and Law at Sydney uni. He practiced Law for a short while and went into business. He made too much money for his own good and today is not so much retired as having little to do. He plays tennis and carries the bags for his wife when she goes overseas. When prompted and badgered he does the occasional review.
He goes to Ethiopia every now and then and where, with Professor McGuigan of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he is bringing the Sodis Program for safer water to the Tigray region.
When seen in public he is often hunched over a cup of coffee and a foccacio whilst immersed in a diabolical suduko. Or he is driving his wife to bridge.
There was scarce an empty seat in the Concert Hall of the Opera House at this performance conducted by Simone Young .Beethoven at the apogee of his symphonic powers composed this, the last of his symphonies in the years prior …
Benjamin Northey is unique. He believes in bringing Classical music to the public. All Conductors do. But he is different. He wants to explain a complex symphony to an audience. He wants to deconstruct it .And at the end it …
This was truly a wonderful event. Certainly this reviewer has never seen (or heard) anything like it!
The program was in two halves. There were two conductors, and an amalgam of two orchestras; the Australian Orchestra and the Guizhou Chinese …
Donald Runnicles is a charismatic, mellifluous speaking Scot, a tall less shambolic version of that other famous Scot Billy Connolly. He is also a superb conductor and a frequent fixture on the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Calendar. It is easy to
On a sunny autumn afternoon we found ourselves in an elegant terrace on Boyce road Glebe. We came for a recital by a duo of Cello and Violin ..in a Salon.
Concerts via the forum of a salon make listening
This movie opened the 11th Persian Film Festival In Sydney’s entertainment quarter at Moore Park last night. A small section of Sydney’s glitterati including Hugo Weaving were there ,soaking up the excitement and the canapes and champagne. The movie title …