Tag: The Plus Ones

Alina Ibragimova, violinist, performs with the ACO

Chamber music specialist Alina Ibragimova plays Richard Tognetti’s string orchestra arrangement for “Death and the Maiden.” For the second program of their national season, the Australian Chamber Orchestra put on a sparkling show with guest conductor Alina Ibragimova. Russian-born, London-based Ibragimova is a violinist who has made…

The Minimalists

‘Less Is Now’ presented by The Minimalists

At a seminar at the Forum Theatre, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, aka The Minimalists, spoke to over 700 hundred Melburnians about the essence of minimalism and how it can add value to your life. If you’re new to this term,…

Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, and Beethoven by ARCO

Pastoral music and period instruments by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre, with guest choir Polyphonic Voices. A popular style of the Romantic period is the pastoral, which calls to mind horizon views and bountiful…

‘Let’s Go Up Here’ at the Festival of Live Art

If you haven’t familiarised yourself with what ‘live art’ is, now is the time. The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) is yet again showcasing a body of bold, ambitious and provocative work and Let’s Go Up Here is the embodiment of…

Sweating at the ‘Worktable’ at The Festival of Live Art

The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) has been rocking and rolling Melbourne’s experimental arts scene for the third year with its provocative, whimsical and unpredictable program. Encapsulating all those three elements, Worktable is a quintessentially FOLA show that takes you out…

Mahler 9: MSO Great Classics Series

Sir Andrew Davis conducts a canonical Ninth with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Symphony No.9 in D by Gustav Mahler is considered one of the greatest works for orchestra, an esteem that it retains a century after it was written. For…