Yalu Apothecary: Rhiannon Mapstone – Presenting The Empress
Nature responds to the human hand & heart by providing lush green beauty for skin & spirit, fulfilling a dream of founder of Yalu Apothecary, Rhiannon Mapstone
Harmony
Andrew Ford Celebrates The Memory of Music – Finding a Voice
Orchestral textures, symphonic overtones, choral blending and solo virtuosity dazzle in the arrangement of Andrew Ford’s optimistic memoir, The Memory of Music
Australian World Orchestra, Hamer Hall – The Show Must Go On
Sir Simon Rattle conducted Anton Bruckner’s Symphony 8 to WOW and WIN the crowd in the Hamer Hall Melbourne, and the audience’s standing ovation kept rolling on
Le Corbusier – Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s Modernist Style
Early in the twentieth century Swiss born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted his grandfather’s name Le Corbusier presenting a new audacious style of architecture
Music – Harmony from Apollo to Palladio & Mozart to Jenkins
Music based on philosophies and principles established by legends of Apollo and the ancient Greeks comes to us via Vitruvius and Palladio from Mozart to Jenkins
Fabulous Friday Night Events at Monet’s Garden in the NGV
Pop Up Events and Music and Monet is a very appealing Friday night initiative attached to the Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition Monet’s Garden now on at the National Gallery Victoria. Director of the NGV, Tony Ellwood said: ‘The Friday night series will completely transform the Gallery through these major evening…
Eleanor of Aquitaine – Harmony and Happiness of Courtly Love
Courtly love involved declarations of service, devotion, and passion and was meant to be ennobling, whether the lady knew about her knights love for her or not
Alchemy – Magically Transmuting Baroque Music into Xmas Joy
Brisbane based ensemble Alchemy will celebrate Christmas 2011 by performing Baroque music filled with energy, passion and joy featuring soprano Shelli Hulcombe
Beauty of Form
Aphrodite, Adonis, Apollo, Artemis…are about ennoblement of form in Ancient Greece. Its visual remains, its architecture, ceramics, and most especially the statues of male and female bodies are for many aesthetically beautiful. But how can so many things be beautiful in Ancient Greece when they are entirely dissimilar? Is beauty…