Art and Abart

David Corcoran sings David Corcoran and Amanda Windred sang for the Wagner Society of NSW last Sunday, accompanied by pianist Bradley G...

If you thought email privacy or lack of it didn't relate to you, I recommend you read this article from Groklaw called Forced disclosu...

SSO 2014 brochure and CD The Sydney Symphony Orchestra sent out a CD with their program this year. It was a master stroke, because the p...

I have just discovered Asher Fisch talking about Wagner's leitmotifs . Now I want to hear him conduct. Pity the Seattle Ring Cycle...

Whoopeeeee  ... in six months Christine Goerke will be in Sydney to sing Elektra.  Hold on to your hats!

It is August and the Australian bush is alive with flowers, flowers quite different from the garden azaleas. When you first arrive in Au...

My predecessors in this house must have had a particular liking for azaleas as there are a lot of them in my garden, each one different and ...

Lisa Harper-Brown sings I drew the lovely Lisa Harper-Brown as she sang for the Wagner Society of NSW some time ago. The society late...

.... and she is 14 years old!

Zazzle has a new look ... so my zazzle Artsmitten  store has a new look too.It's where you buy arty cards and T shirts ... including lot...

  Simone Young conducting ... sketched in my program Simone Young conducted the Sydney Symphony last night with Lisa Gasteen singing Wa...

Deborah Humble sang the role of Amneris in Aida in Melbourne recently and I sketched her while she practised in Sydney. That was in March b...

If you are a Wagner fan ... or even if you aren't, here is a video (in German) to entrance you! Ring Cycle in London (click on the p...

How do singers get their voices to perform vocal high jinx? In this video the charming Joyce DiDonato tells us exactly how she practises... ...

ABC news in America reports that low level NSA analysts have access to tools that let them target whoever they like. All they need is an ema...

View to the garden I hadn't realised until my kitchen was renovated how important a room with a view is to ones sense of well bein...

Small boy makes a daisy chain Summer idyll. A small boy sits splay-legged on a lawn among flowers, threading daisies into a chain. He is...

Huge sails soared to the ceiling of the Sydney Opera House concert hall on Saturday night. A sailing ship ... oh  yes ...  The Flying Dutchm...

Are you looking for a great place to live? A new survey has ranked Dunedin as the top place to live in New Zealand. Now why am I not surpri...

After two weeks work the kitchen is finally finished, all except the painting. Old kitchen The benchtop in the original kitchen was 45...