Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir with Sydney’s The Australian Voices. Photo: Peter Hislop.
Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 20, “Far and Near”, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Sunday, May 9. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA.
THERE are few more pleasurable human experiences than sitting with other people listening to beautiful voices raised in song.
So it was when Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir collaborated with Sydney’s The Australian Voices to perform 11 original compositions created specifically for them, as conductor Amber Evans explained, under the covid-related theme, “Far and Near”.
The songs related both literally and figuratively to this idea so that while some composers focused on human separation, physical and emotional, one reflected on musical issues and others looked to the sea and the sky for inspiration.
Mustang Wrestlers Take the Mat in Omaha; Freeseman Brings Home Some Hardware Mustang Wrestlers Take the Mat in Omaha; Freeseman Brings Home Some Hardware Tuesday, 02 March 2021 11:26
By Scott Bidroski
The 2020-21 season for the Gordon-Rushville wrestling team culminated this past weekend with a trip to the NSAA State Wrestling Championships held at the CHI Center in Omaha.
Five Mustang wrestlers qualified for the tournament, the most for the program since 2010.
Here is a recap of the action for the Mustang wrestlers.
Freshman Tucker Banister Banister took the mat in the 120 weight class. His first bout was against Lance Olberding from Fort Calhoun who was a returning state qualifier. Banister lost by fall in the 2nd period. Olberding went on to finish fourth overall.