Opera in Three Acts

L’Obama, ossia L’Avvento del Messia

James Calvert came up with this brilliant opera idea - here's a link to the Classical Music and Opera Forum where he first published the story in September 2008.

http://cmandof.freeforums.org/current-discussion-off-topic-chatter-t19-280.html#p2060

Act One opens at La Piazza del Cattedrale di Washington on the day after the USA elections...

Thank you Polly Mason, for bringing this to my attention. Enjoy!

Anniversary Accolades

Anniversary Accolades - Celebrating Classic Choral Composers
We are already rehearsing for this concert in July and it is going well. Working under David's direction is always fun! Note that all the choir midi learning files for this concert can now be accessed from the links panel on the right.

YouTube Symphony

Have a listen to this - it is awesome and a very interesting concept: use the Internet to have musicians from all over the world perform a single piece of music. This is Tan Dun's composition "Internet Symphony, Eroica".



Read more about this Google/YouTube project in the Google blog: YouTube Symphony Orchestra: from idea to reality, published on 15 April.

And here is the London Symphony Orchestra's rendition:

Rosebush Cards

The name Rosebush is an amalgamation of our names, Rose from Rosi, and Bush from the anglicised part of Labuschagne.

Here we are busy at work one Sunday afternoon.

We have plenty of plant material spread about on the office floor. We have learnt over the years we've been making the cards for fund-raising, what presses well and what doesn't.

And here are a couple of samples of our handiwork.All are totally unique, some work according to plan and others are the subject of a bit of serendipity!

We sell them at the monthly sales table, for $3.00 each. They are blank inside so people can write their own greetings.

John Matheson - Obituary in ODT today

John Matheson's obituary was in the ODT today. He was a Dunedin educated conductor - Otago Boys and University of Otago.

In 1982 he conducted a concert in Dunedin of the Verdi Requiem. The Schola Cantorum of Dunedin took part, with the NZSO. I think Donald McIntyre was the Bass Soloist.

2009 AGM

With the AGM held on 31 March now behind us, we look forward to another year of presenting top-notch concerts and we welcome the new committee members elected:

Gisela Sole, Rosi Crane and Warren Tate

Watch this space for the announcement of the President's Nominee and a possible additional two co-opted members.

Thank you to our out-going committee members for their contributions during 2008: Jane Edwards, Alan Girvan, Noel Townshend and Justine Schep.

For the current full list of committee members and other office bearers, check out our website admin page.