Claire Coleman, Author at Seesawmag

An audience sits under a high arched ceiling, golden lights hanging from the roof. They are watching a group of musicians on an elevated stage, several other musicians seated just below them. This is Perth Symphony Orchestra performing in Perth Mess Hall. Orchestra busts barriers with smashing time

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Orchestra busts barriers with smashing time

13 November 2022

If Mahler or Metallica require it, a chamber-sized version of Perth Symphony Orchestra is ready to get heavy, writes Claire Coleman.

A flautist and violinist stand playing their instruments, while two other musicians sit behind theirs, a man on the harpsichord and a woman on the cello. Behind them are columns, giving the impression of a stately room. They are Australian Baroque performers Andy Skinner, Helen Kruger, Noeleen Wright and James Huntingford. Baroque tour of Europe one to savour

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Baroque tour of Europe one to savour

31 October 2022

French in name only, Telemann’s ‘Paris Quartets’ offer a suite of European flavours. Australian Baroque charms Claire Coleman with a polished performance.

A semi circle of 8 singers, with one standing in the centre, facing an audience. They are in a large hall and there are cnadles, chairs and pot plants decorating the floor around them. Vanguards bring poetry to vocal music

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Vanguards bring poetry to vocal music

20 June 2022

Armchair poets become legends in their own lunchtimes in Vanguard Consort’s imaginative Saturday Night Poetry, writes Claire Coleman.

Richard Tognetti and Australian Chamber Orchestra. A man plays the violin. He is looking upwards with a slight smile and relaxed look onhis face. He is surrounded by a group of violinists and viola players all dressed in black Chamber champions worth the wait

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Chamber champions worth the wait

20 May 2022

Our reviewer Claire Coleman joins an ecstatic crowd lapping up the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s return to the West.

A person with long brown hair stands in front of a bright red wall, wearing black jeans, tight black tshirt and with hands stretched out and a WTF grimace on their face What to SEE: Perth Comedy Festival

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What to SEE: Perth Comedy Festival

13 April 2022

Perth Comedy Festival 2022 offers audiences a much wider range of laughs than just the cliches. Claire Coleman has some tips on uproariously funny shows that also pass the sniff test.

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Feels like home for Freo favourites

21 March 2022

Our reviewer Claire Coleman joins Fremantle Chamber Orchestra’s stans* to see classical courtliness meet vigorous recklessness in the collective’s latest program.

A concert hall stage is full of musicians from WASO and the WA Youth Orchestra wearing black clothes with a conductor on the podium. They play together for the show 'Become Ocean'. Marine motions in music

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Marine motions in music

7 March 2022

In Become Ocean, WASO and WAYO offer two new works that tinker at the conceptual boundaries of Perth Festival’s theme “Wardan” (ocean), writes Claire Coleman.

An image from Ta-Ku and friends Songs to Experience, pictured a group of people admire an exhibit with intricate light works. Immersed in sound and vision

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Immersed in sound and vision

21 February 2022

In Songs To Experience, local beatmaker Ta-ku draws in artist friends to create a full body encounter in light, sound and wonder, writes Claire Coleman.

A Noongar man wearing a kangaroo skin cloak and headband in Aboiginal colours plays a didgeroo which is decorated in colourful dot painting Varied take on classic local tale

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Varied take on classic local tale

20 February 2022

Perth Symphony Orchestra’s innovative program and talented soloists recount Rockingham’s role in an iconic story of escape on the high seas, writes Claire Coleman.

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Honesty in the air in stellar show

19 February 2022

Perth-bred Stella Donnelly is adored for her subversive and political subject matter, but Claire Coleman finds even more reasons to like her.

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