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1 month ago | 
5mbs.com | Graham Strahle
Elder Hall, Adelaide16 May, 2025Sometimes a concert slips through the reviewing cracks, and regrettably so. A case in point was the ASQ’s recent ‘Rapture’ concert. Not having been able to review it, I did nevertheless attend as an audience member, and felt impelled to add my thoughts about it. As long-term observers of the group know well, the ASQ have a hectic concert schedule and are stretched in many directions.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Graham Strahle |Arts Highlights
One of Australia’s most successful tenors and in his ninetieth year, Thomas Edmonds has put pen to paper in what might be his swansong. Ev’ry Valley: A tenor’s journey is a prodigiously detailed account of his life, and quite a marvel for what it contains. All his memories and ruminations are contained in its 313 pages, and the book is arranged in a most unusual way: by abode. A singer’s life is on the road, one might say, and this has surely been the case with Edmond.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Graham Strahle |Katherine Arguile
Brett Sheehy had to hit the ground sprinting when returning to the helm of the Adelaide Festival, with the 2025 program sent to the printers less than two months after he started as artistic director. Sheehy, who was AD of the event from 2005-08, was brought back to finalise and oversee the delivery of next year’s Festival after his predecessor Ruth Mackenzie left in early August to take up a new role within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Shannon Pearce |PHIL BROWN |Graham Strahle |Suzie Keen
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Graham Strahle |Alexander Voltz
Brisbane singer Dami Im is looking forward to performing in front of Eurovision fans again. The last time she fronted them was in Stockholm, Sweden, with the song Sound of Silence, which placed second in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. She had achieved the highest Eurovision Song Context score ever for Australia.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Kyron Weetra |Graham Strahle |Alexander Voltz
Kultar Ahluwalia’s world premiere of this poignantly earnest autobiographical show supports his latest musical release of the same name, The Mixed-Race Tape. Ahluwalia shines a light on the multiculturalism of his heritage, Punjabi Sikh on his father’s side and Irish Catholic on his mother’s, tracking through both his own journey and that of his family. Along the way he comes to terms with his identity and dismantles the mask of ego that most MCs can get caught wearing.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Graham Strahle |Alexander Voltz |PHIL BROWN
He’s been silent during the last few years, so it was interesting to hear a new work by Graeme Koehne. His Bittersweet Symphony is an Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Commission, and revealed itself as a smart, sleek and impressive score – his most polished to date.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Alexander Voltz |PHIL BROWN |Graham Strahle
Flight, which had its Australian premiere at the 2006 Adelaide Festival, is an opera in three acts originally commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera with music by composer Jonathan Dove. The libretto, by English writer April De Angelis, was inspired in part by the true story of Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for 18 years after being left in limbo when he arrived there with no passport or identification papers.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Alexander Voltz |Graham Strahle
Earlier this year ABC Classic released a recording of my Stradella Suite, a 30-minute, six-movement suite for stradella piano accordion trio that it had commissioned as part of the ABC’s 2022 Composer Commissioning Fund. To the best of my knowledge this is a notable work in that it is Australia’s first serious art music composition for such an ensemble.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Graham Strahle
The announcement that experienced arts administrator Amanda Jolly is the new executive director of Queensland Youth Orchestras is good news for this dynamic organisation. Queensland Youth Orchestras, based at The Old Museum in Bowen Hills, is a powerhouse of developing musical talent and very important for the ecology of the arts in Queensland. Jolly is a highly respected cultural leader with a longstanding commitment to building opportunities for young people to participate in the arts.
