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Wednesday 5 April 2006

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Inside this issue...

- New Music at WASO
- Special offer for Tura ezine subscribers!
- Defying Gravity Fascinating Rhythms
- WAMi Festival 06 Stakeholder Survey
- Club Zho

New Music at WASO

Landscapes

Featuring The Heart of Night (2005) by Australian composer Ross Edwards

Paul Daniel, conductor
Riley Lee, shakuhachi

Also on the program:

Ives Three Places in New England
Debussy Images

Paul Daniel, former Music Director of the English National Opera, conducts music imbued with the colours, scents and textures of some distinctive and powerful landscapes. Having dazzled Perth audiences in 2004 as part of the TaikOz drumming ensemble, Riley Lee, a grand master of the shakuhachi, returns to perform the beautiful concerto for Japanese flute written for him by Ross Edwards.

8pm, Friday 21 & Saturday 22 April
Perth Concert Hall

Tickets from $20.00 - $68.00.
Remember! Choir Stalls tickets available for this concert for only $20 each
Bookings through WASO on 9326 0000 or http://www.waso.com.au/

Special offer for Tura ezine subscribers!

Mention the TURA EZINE when booking to purchase one adult A reserve ticket to the WASO concert Landscapes and receive the second ticket FREE!

Defying Gravity Fascinating Rhythms

Featuring Australian composers:

Daniel Hall: The Marching Drumkit (*world premiere)
Mark Pollard: Interludes
Nigel Westlake: Penguin Circus
Greg Coles: Good Vibes

Also on the program:
Akira Nishimura, Astor Piazzola, Manfred Menke, David Downes and Ney Rosauro.

Fresh from their performances at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, WAAPA’s award-winning Defying Gravity percussion ensemble creates a new world of sound, where sparkling rhythms and seductive melodies mix with a gorgeous array of percussion instruments from around the world. The performance features Nigel Westlake’s hilarious Penguin Circus, Akira Nishimura’s astonishing Ketiak, the mesmerising soundscape Painting with Breath, and the world premiere of Daniel Hall's The Marching Drumkit - and concludes with some thrilling dance music from Papua New Guinea, led by Iain Robbie!

7.30pm Wednesday 26th & Thursday 27th April
WAAPA Music Auditorium, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley
Tickets: $19.50 / $14.50
Bookings and Info from the WAAPA Box office: (08) 9370 6895

WAMi Festival 06 Stakeholder Survey

WAM is looking for feedback from industry members on this year’s festival and they have a short n sharp online survey that you can fill out at http://wam.asn.au/survey

All respondents go into the draw to win a 12 month subscription with Sonicbids, the online electronic press kit service. You’ve got until this Monday April 10 to tell WAM how you’d like to see the festival operate.

Club Zho

The Club Zho brochure, featuring info for April, May and June, is soon to be on the streets so keep an eye out for it!

Alternatively you can find the info at http://www.tura.com.au/events/clubzho/

Don’t forget that Tura subscribers are the first to receive all information on upcoming events and opportunities. So if you want to get the news before everyone else does, go to http://www.tura.com.au/turacard/turacard.html to subscribe


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