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Two-year-old trotting fillies got their star turn at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Tuesday, July 6 and Adare Castle and Elegant Mermaid emerged victorious in their Gold Series debut. In the first $101,400 division, fans liked the look of Adare Castle’s qualifying results — one win and one second — and sent her off as their top choice. The Muscle Mass daughter and driver Bob McClure of Rockwood, ON left well from Post 4 and had established command before the :29 opening quarter. They cruised along on the front end through a 1:00.1 half and 1:30 three-quarters and then kicked home to a four and...

The Library acquired a copy of I am team Australia signed by every Australian athlete who attended the 3rd Invictus Games held in Sydney in October 2018. Many of these Australian athletes are also profiled in Unconquered : our wounded warriors, which tells the story of the veterans military service and how sport helps them overcome mental and physical trauma inflicted from their service.  Signs & wonders, a limited edition artists’ book collaboration between American writer Jacques Menasche and Australian photographer Stephen Dupont, who retraced Mark Twain’s 1867 expedition to the Hol...

5 May 2021 43 min listen This week we look back with a series of two episodes that attempt to explore the music, the man and the myth of composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle in his 80th year in 2014.   From the Archive sees us dig into our extensive contemporary and classical music and cinema podcast archive as we rediscover interviews and discussions with artists, with our long-standing producer and presenter, Ben Eshmade.  Subscribe to Nothing Concrete on Acast, Spotify, iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts. Share this: Ben Eshmade: Hello and welcome to Nothing Concrete, the Barbican...

ABC Radio National's The Music Show clocks up 30 years on air By presenter Andrew Ford SunSunday 14 Andrew Ford interviewing a trumpeter on the streets of New Orleans in 2000. ( Print text only You'll have to imagine the anticipation. It's a Saturday morning in May 2008, and as usual The Music Show is live in the studio. I'm quite used to speaking to famous musicians, but this morning it's one of the great jazz musicians of all time. Sonny Rollins has played with Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach. His tunes — some of them now standards — include Ole...