Whoever said "nothing happens at Bathurst" doesn't know what he's talking about.
My nearest and dearest and I spent Saturday night watching a great ballet program (from the Australian Ballet) at the Entertainment Centre. A classical program featuring Les Sylphides, a Strauss thing, the Graduation Ball and the final act of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Sydneyites eat your heart out - we left home 25 mins before it was due to start, parked across the road from the centre and paid $45 for the tickets. And the ballet was excellent!
But, the best was yet to come... at the Sunday afternoon concert featuring world famous pianist Simon Tedeschi playing Grieg's Piano Concerto. This was a long awaited for event of great anticipation which did not disappoint. We went early so we could sit in the front row with a view of the keyboard. The experience was cathartic to say the least and I caught myself checking my pulse rate at the end of the first movement as it was so enthralling.
The performance was technically perfect of course, but also extremely powerful and sensitive. The guy is a talent and a half and the orchestra, a local one with help from some ring-ins, rose to the occasion under the baton of our wonderful Precentor, Michael Deasey. What an afternoon!! We got to talk to Simon after the performance courtesy of our friend Antonio Deasey.
Sorry, no photographs taken for this section, but Simon has CD's (check the iTunes Store).
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you make a compelling argument for living in bathurst though i can't feel i am missing much living in cambridge except for the family of course.
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