[...] part 1 of this review, I proposed that this view was controversial, and that many arguments could be [...]

Could anybody tell me please the name of the music/singing played towards the end of La Bete?

Thank you

[...] left my opening sentence as it was, because Maestro Levine's cancellations are now routine. I wrote a defense of the Maestro back in February, and that still stands. Levine has improved the orchestra, [...]

[...] the Festival is built, but not by the composer himself. In my recollection, Schumann’s Genoveva, Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Der Zwerg, Szymanowski’s King Roger, as well as Meyerbeer’s [...]

Thanks for this report on what was clearly a major Mozartian event! I've never heard the work live, though I still remember vividly my repeated encounters with Colin Davis's first recording of the work.

Your various descriptive details--the advantages of "opera in concert," the wonderfully "leathery" violas--help me feel as if I was there myself....

[...] this room by Melbourne artist Rosslynd Piggott. (There’s a picture of the room in the article here.) I stood alone and contemplated fogotten memory,  remembered experience and transient [...]

[...] Unforeseen Unforeseen Circumstances: The Fall of Kevin Rudd [...]

[...] “The Biennale has a delightfully freewheeling and inclusive spirit, but it is the high standard of the art work, carefully selected and displayed, that makes the big exhibition so enjoyable at all its venues, not just Cockatoo Island … It helps that there is very little art of the ‘my three year old could have drawn that’ school. The easy pose of ironic detachment which sometimes puts people off contemporary art is almost completely absent, or is at least leavened by a political and conceptual eagerness which eloquently expresses the Biennale’s seemingly unwieldy theme, “The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age.” Alan Miller, writing in the Berkshire Review for the arts. [...]

Aloha, Malie tamasi'i meihe kele'amaka.'oku fai ai 'ae polepole ha memipa hotau ki'i famili masiva kuo ne fai me'a ketau laukau ai.pea 'oku tau fakafeta'i koe taleniti 'oku fakakoloa 'aki koe 'ehe 'Otua , 'oku ke hanga 'o faka'aonga'i ki he lelei taha 'ofa ke fakatapuaki'i 'e he 'Otua mone tataki ai pe ho hala moe ngaue 'oke ke fai. lotu moe 'ofa meihe Toetu'u family.

I'm very proud of my little brother and his success. Love you Ta'u keep up the good work and best wishes and many blessings to you.