The Vanguard Consort performed incredibly challenging music at their debut concert, and Bourby Webster says while nerves made for a cautious performance, the stage is set for an impressive future.
Author Archives: Bourby Webster
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Singers aim for the stars
24 March 2021
Offering audiences a fresh experience of classical music is both daring and necessary. Bourby Webster finds The Giovanni Consort’s season opener exciting and a little uncomfortable.
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Cheeky chemistry, great talent
19 January 2021
Bourby Webster had goosebumps watching superb performers bringing the greats to life in Ella & Louis!.
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Pure Handel
5 August 2020
Perth’s baroque royalty come together for this Freeze Frame Opera performance. But can you have too much Handel? Bourby Webster finds out.
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A musical hug
3 July 2020
Local chamber collective Cygnus Arioso lifted Bourby Webster’s spirits with their first post-lockdown performance.
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Musical worlds collide
17 February 2020
‘Quartet & Country’ captivates Bourby Webster with its brilliant combination of music from different times and places.
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Lullabies and five words
15 February 2020
Bourby Webster is moved as much by Perth Festival’s Koorlangka as by Gina Williams’ determination to revive and promote Noongar language.
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High art is high entertainment
3 February 2020
Bourby Webster says nothing’s sacred in the clever DivaLicious show, Defying Gravity! – and it’s hilariously entertaining.
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When the world stops
14 November 2019
Review: Perth International Jazz Festival, ‘Berardi/Foran/Karlen’ ⋅ State Theatre Centre Courtyard, 9 November⋅ Review by Bourby Webster ⋅ I entered the State Theatre Centre Courtyard for the Brisbane-based …
