by Clayton Werner | Aug 11, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
[ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE ~ AUSTRALIA/CHINA/RUSSIA] Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 10 Aug. I’m going to start at the finish, so to speak. The main feature act, but by no means the only one, was a collection of Joaquin Rodrigo pieces, collectively known as...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland Russia to, ostensibly, promote his instrument in the...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey Rush has described him as “The Sergeant Pepper of cryptic...
by Bobby Goudie | Feb 20, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews
The Garden Of Unearthly Delights’ Studio 7, Tue Feb 17 Tom Ballard has brought an amusing, well-planned show to the 2015 Adelaide Fringe. Ballard is a likable, charming guy who had always been successful as co-host on Triple J breakfast and currently on ABC’s Reality...
by Catherine Blanch | Aug 27, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews
by Catherine Blanch. Presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre and Shandong Provincial Department of Culture, Qingdao Song And Dance Theatre is performing the Australian Premiere of Red Sorghum at the OzAsia Festival. Winner of the WENHUA Grand Prize, China’s Ministry...
