Music / Bethany Hill, soprano, and Penelope Cashman, piano. At Wesley Music Centre, December 12. Reviewed by
LEN POWER.
MUSIC can take us out of ourselves and bear us away from life’s challenges.
Taking their inspiration from the words in Franz Schubert’s song “An Die Musik” (To Music), Bethany Hill, soprano, and Penelope Cashman, piano, gave us a concert that did exactly that.
Hill is an Adelaide soprano who is equally at home on the operatic stage and in intimate chamber-music settings. She is a passionate performer of early music and has appeared as a recitalist around Australia. She has performed roles in Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas”, roles in several Mozart operas, Schoenberg’s “Erwartung” and Handel’s “Saul”.
“Glass Utopia”, exhibition by Mr Lawrence in collaboration with 1+1 Design Gallery. Photo: Mainardi.
GLASS artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has alerted us to a notable success for Craft ACT in collaboration with Mr Lawrence of Milan at Venice Glass Week, where their exhibition “Glass Utopia” received a top-three rating and gave exposure to work by Canberra artists Martiniello, Liz Kelly and Mel Douglas. “Love the last pic with Venice and canals as background to glass works”, says the very chuffed Martiniello, one of whose glass fish traps appear prominently.
CANBERRA Potters’ Christmas Fair, selling original, handmade ceramics including planter pots, tableware, jewellery, vases and Christmas decorations, is on again at 1 Aspinall St, Watson, until Sunday, December 20, 10am-4pm daily, Tuesday to Sunday.