An Ambivalent Woman of 37 - Encore Performances!
Fri 1 and Sat 2 November 2024
7pm – 8.30pm
Emma Sandall confronts the vexatious question "should I have a child?" in a performance that serves up an emotional and intellectual gut punch with a healthy dose of black humour.
Inspired by Sheila Heti’s book 'Motherhood', director and performer Emma Sandall has collaborate with composer Elena Kats Chernin AO and pianist Yanghee Kim to create a highly original collision of animation, music and movement to explore - and explode - the quandary she faced at the end of her child-bearing years. Drawing inspiration from Monty Python and the golden era of silent film, this vaudevillian show takes the audience on a sometimes absurdist, often comic, and always deeply compassionate ride. Along the way, it challenges the idea of female fulfilment and sacrifice - and who gets to define it.
A Wonderful World: Simon Tedeschi & Friends - Live at The Great
Tues 5 and Wed 6 November 2024
7pm – 8.30pm
One of Australia’s best-loved international pianists SIMON TEDESCHI returns to Sydney’s Great Synagogue with a programme of sublime jazz standards, accompanied by two of Australia's most revered jazz musicians, trumpeter Mat Jodrell and bassist Cameron Undy.
With music ranging from Louis Armstrong to George Gershwin and Benny Goodman – and so much more - this mouth-watering concert, brimful of favourites from the golden era of jazz, offers food for the soul to stir emotions with nostalgia, joyful, toe-tapping rhythms and moody blues. This is a special occasion: Simon Tedeschi playing an all jazz programme with some absolute legends of the jazz world – ‘in the round’ - with the artists in the centre.
Presented by Live at Yours - for two nights only - at the historic Great Synagogue, Sydney.
Steve Lynch in The US of Eh?!?
Sat 9 and Sun 10 November
After years of riots, impeachments, and yet another head-shaking election, the whole world is asking the same question – America: what is UP with that place?
Steve Lynch has the answer to that question - he took the plunge and moved there.
For a whole year, Steve saw everything it had to offer, and said yes to (almost) everything. After all, what could possibly go wrong? In U.S. of Eh?!? Steve goes beyond the cliches and the catastrophic election decisions, and reveals the true America, reliving a year of Hollywood, rednecks, reality TV, Texan rodeos and, most of all, confusion….
2MBS Fine Music Magazine & 50th Anniversary
October 2024 through January 2025
Radio 2MBS Fine Music – Australia’s first ever stereo FM station - is set to celebrate its 50th birthday. And the festivities will be shared with music-lovers across the globe!
2MBS Fine Music Sydney is Australia’s premier broadcaster of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World, Folk, Ambient and other Contemporary music. Almost entirely powered by volunteers (among them famous musicians, composers, celebrity broadcasters and music aficionados), the station brings fine music for every taste to Sydneysiders on 102.5 FM stereo, nationally and globally via the internet 24/7 (at www.2mbsfinemusicsydney.com), and now - in your pocket, wherever you go, via the 2MBS App (available on the Apple App or Google Play Stores).
In the next weeks and months, the birthday festivities ramp up with treats for all: on-air, on-site and in multi-sensory celebratory events!
The publication of Michael Morton-Evans’ history of the station “The Experiment that Lasted Half a Century” is set for release; a celebratory dinner is planned for 12 December; a retrospective special broadcast airs at 12 noon on 15 December (exactly 50 years to the hour since the first broadcast!); plus an open day (that commemorates the first such event half a century ago) takes place at the St Leonards studios on Saturday 1 February when the public can tour the station, meet the presenters, make an on-air request or record a message!
Special messages from famous musicians and international personalities and musical ‘stings’ have been recorded for broadcast. And an elegant new logo will be unveiled.
Meanwhile, the October edition of the 2MBS Fine Music Magazine continues its monthly artist and composer features (Jane Bunnett, Charles Ives, Mike Nock, Mosaic), a volunteer spotlight (veteran 2MBS blues, roots and country presenter Austin Harrison), a music quiz… and the next in its series looking into the issues that artificial intelligence raises for music and music broadcasting.
And there’s much more in the offing at 2MBS Fine Music this month and beyond.
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