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Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 5, “Greatest Mozart I”, Fitters’ Workshop, May 1. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA A CELEBRATION of Mozart at his most cheerful greeted patrons of the Canberra International Music Festival in “Greatest Mozart I”, the first of two such concerts in the festival linked to the festival theme, “The Idea of Vienna”. To be sure, one of the three works played wasn’t actually Mozart, but there was method in the programming of this concert, in which soloists and musicians from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra performed three major key ...

Didgeridoo, voice and guitar artist William Barton and his partner, the virtuosic violinist Veronique Serret, will perform “Heartland” as part of the festival. Photo: Anthony Browell. WHEN it comes to planning the Canberra International Music Festival, artistic director Roland Peelman wants to have his Sachertorte and eat it.  For he has no intention of being straitjacketed by whatever title he puts to the festival, so that the 2021 motif, “The Idea of Vienna”, will be balanced by a formidable program of indigenous Australian music performed on each day of the event.  To be sure, ...

My old school was Ampleforth RC Primary, seen here in the mid-1960s. We all knew the rules of our favourite playground games. I LIVE not far from a school and I can hear the happy sounds of the children in the playground enjoying the respite from lessons. I often wonder what kinds of games they play, and whether they still enjoy those that my generation did as youngsters. There was a whole host of them, the rules not written down, but we all knew what to do, such as Wallflower, Leapfrog, Kiss Catch, Cat’s Cradle, Marbles, Conkers, Hopskotch, British Bulldogs, and Stuck in the Mud. In hi...

AN Oakworth couple whose daughter’s death gave life to others are backing a new campaign urging families to talk about organ donation. When 32-year-old Claire McKeown was killed by a drunk driver in 2011, her organs saved several lives and transformed others. “It will be ten years on July 1 since we lost Claire,” say her parents, Martin and Sally Walker. “She saved four lives through organ donation, as we knew her wishes, but it is never too early to have ‘the conversation’ with your loved ones. “This is particularly important for the BAME community – as an imam said...

Grassroots impact Sanjay Molur   | Photo Credit: Special arrangement He has been working in the field of conservation for the past 28 years and has helped in deriving the IUCN status to more than 10,000 species The spider freshwater fish Pethia sanjaymoluri share a bond. They are both named after Sanjay Molur, a conservation biologist based in Coimbatore. The 52-year-old, who has been working in this field for the past 28 years, recently won the Wildlife Service Award from the Sanctuary Nature Foundation. “I was in Coorg as part of my work when I got a call from Bittu Sahgal, founder ...