September 2022

Features

How Melbourne Opera came to stage The Ring Cycle in Bendigo.
by Patricia Maunder

What can orchestras do to attract a broader, younger audience?
by Sam Weller

A reimagining of Homer’s Iliad explores an unspoken relationship.
by Elissa Blake

Eric Whitacre on his highly personal choral work helping others grieve.
by Jo Litson

Soundings

Daniel Riley
by Deborah Jones
Interview

Recording of the Year
by Clive Paget
Awards

On The Record
by Clive Paget
Recordings

Cutting Edge
by Josten Myburgh
New Music

Samuel Mariño
by Steve Dow
Interview

A Winter’s Journey
by Will Yeoman
Classical Music

Steve Reich’s Conversations
by Will Yeoman
Books

True Things
by Lynden Barber
Film

In the Limelight

Newsworthy
A round-up of our recent news reports

Comings & Goings
The latest arts appointments and departures

On Stage
The buzz around live performance

On Air & Online
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming

Coda

Let’s drink to that
Venues like intervals as they make money from the bar sales, but should performers be forced into having one if it interrupts the natural flow of the show?
Guy Noble’s Soapbox

The Cor Anglais
Michael Pisani, Principal Cor Anglais at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, didn’t even own the instrument when he was first offered the chance to play it. Now he is about to perform a new work by Anne Cawrse.
Playing up

Walking Uluru Treaty Tracks with The Song Company
First Nations composers Sonya Holowell and Elizabeth Sheppard discuss Songs from the Heart, a new a cappella program that responds to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
World Premiere

Douglas Boyd
The former oboist and Artistic Director of Garsington Opera discusses conducting Beethoven’s nine symphonies in two weeks for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
5 Questions

Michael Ball
The British musical theatre star explains how he learned to sing and why the songs of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg are in his DNA.
My Music

Listen and Read

Contributors

Publisher
Limelight Arts Media Pty Ltd

Editor
Jo Litson

CEO
Cara Anderson

Deputy Editor A/g
Jansson J. Antmann

Designer
Tristan Main

Editor-at-Large
Clive Paget

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Carla Bird
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William Jeffery

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Michael Kaufmann

Contributors
Michael Ball, Lynden Barber, Peter Berner, Elissa Blake, Steve Dow, Sonya Holowell, Deborah Jones, Patricia Maunder, Josten Myburgh, Marilyn Phillips, Michael Pisani, Elizabeth Sheppard, Sam Weller, Will Yeoman

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The October 2022 issue of Limelight will be available online from Monday 19 September.