Art and Abart

Sunset with clouds Season's Greetings dear blog-readers and I wish you a pleasant passage into 2018. I will certainly have one as ...

SSO harpists Bluebeard's Castle is a one act opera by Béla Bartók and this Sydney Symphony production was the first time I had heard...

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In 2005 I attended a life drawing course in northern NSW.  'Life drawing', for those not familiar with art lingo, is the practice of...

Alexander Gavrylyuk plays The Ukrainian born Australian virtuoso pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk played in Sydney last night. The audience h...

The plumber's mate had to scrabble around in my back garden for some time before he was able to locate the end of the sewer pipe last we...

Part of the newsagent shop in Frankfurt Railway Station Another part of the same shop Every so often I land in a newsagents look...

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Dancers: framed ceramic The honey-glaze on the ceramic dancers is an old recipe. It runs off a piece if not contained (which is why the ...

Cockatoos on the roof. They want to be included in my series of  'fabulous ceilings'. ' Sulphur crested cockatoos on the gar...

When the eight year old (previous post) announced she wanted a fox cub and her mother on the front of the partly knitted jumper I was making...

I am knitting a jumper for an eight year old with colours she said she liked ... mainly blues and pinks.   I get a bit bored with plain ...

The hall was dimmed ... just a pinkish light at the back - and then a flutist started playing CPE Bach's Flute Sonata in A minor. It...

Such a moving concert last night at the Utzon Room in the Sydney Opera House.  Three wonderful musicians with passion and insight led us thr...

Ferruccio Furlanetto sings Schubert's Winterreise sung by a bass?  Usually this moving song cycle is sung by tenor or baritone and ...

I heard a delightful concert last night, but  my trip home was not so delightful.  The electronic train signage said the train went north b...

Paris Opera singers would have known these ceilings well in the twentieth century when the Palais Garnier was the home of the Paris Opera.  ...

Louvre: fabulous ceiling #1 Is it possible to trump this wonderful ceiling in the Louvre?  I wonder how often the inhabitants looked upw...

Kraggerud in Sydney There is just something about seeing a musician playing music written by a composer from his/her own country and thi...

It doesn't pay to put your woollies away too early. We are back to winter this week. It was 9C this morning but felt like 0C because of ...