The Perth audience were in capable hands with the voices of the women of the Giovanni Consort this evening, an ensemble of infinitely musical and skilled young people, delivering a concert of both well-known and lesser-featured choral delights.
But firstly, to acknowledge new and refreshing leadership of the longstanding Consort by singer-come-conductor Kate McNamara. McNamara acknowledged in her brief introductions the challenging conditions under which the current concert was rehearsed, as Perth is in the grips of the worst of COVID-19 infections in Australia at present, a fact evidently not lost on much of the choosing-to-be-masked audience. Prior to this concert McNamara acknowledged frankly in an interview with Limelight that she “would love to see our industry question whether all-male concert programs are acceptable in 2022”, articulating that she has made the decision to utilise her position as artistic director to commit to featuring at least a 50 per cent representation of woman composers in concerts henceforth. McNamara proved that this is more than possible by...
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