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Dear Members,
Welcome back after what I hope was a very pleasant
festive season. Our year started well with a recital by Andrew Young,
a baritone and recent graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium, who
is joining Opera Queensland in March as a Young Artist. With his accompanist
Fiona McCabe it was a most successful and enjoyable afternoon and
we look forward to hearing of their future careers with great interest.
In January Barry and Jane Walters and I were invited
to a farewell function for Countess Baudissin, the Director of the
Goethe Institut, who has been such a great supporter of our Society.
She is going to Prague where she will be responsible for a large area
of Eastern Europe from Scandinavia to Warsaw. We wish her well in
her new post but we shall miss her and her charm and warm smile. We
were fortunate to meet the new Director, Dr Roland Goll, who assured
us of his interest in our Society. We welcome him and look forward
to working with him in the future.
I have had discussions with Craig Bush from the Art
Gallery of NSW and a Seminar on Götterdämmerung is tentatively
planned for July at the Art Gallery. As soon as the arrangements are
finalised you will be notified. Our last joint venture - Tannhäuser
- was a great success and the Art Gallery is a wonderful venue.
Also at the Art Gallery are three recitals planned
for this year: Ingrid Silveus and Angus Wood in May, Peter Coleman-Wright
in July and, hopefully, Siegfried Jerusalem in September. The details
of these recitals will be advised as soon as possible.
Please remember that our March meeting will be at
the Eugene Goosens Hall at the ABC studio in Ultimo for a Wagner concert
- Richard and Siegfried - given by the student orchestra from the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Maestro Cillario. The concert
is free and commences at 3pm but we must be seated by 2.30 as part
of the concert will be a direct broadcast.
I would like to thank a past member Michael Edgelow
who donated a collection of Wagner performance programs from the 1970s
& 80s for our members. His generosity was rewarded as there was
much interest and not one of the programs was left at the end of the
February meeting.
The Committee has approved an increase in the 2000/2001
annual subscriptions to cover the GST component of costs after 1 July.
Renewal forms will be mailed in March.
Two of our members, Clare Hennessy and Betty Maloney,
are on the sick list and we wish them both a speedy recovery.
BARBARA McNULTY
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