Jordans Crossing Gazette

arts Looking forward, looking back The end of another year is a time to reflect and celebrate, looking forward and looking back. We must be thankful to our artists, our audiences, our Arts Bundanoon Team and the Bundanoon Community Association. Every one of these is like an indispensable link in a chain that has secured another successful year, with more to follow. As you read this, we shall be about to present this year’s final Music at 10 concert. It will be given by the marvellous Tony Lee, who has appeared several times at Music at 10. Tony was the most successful Australian pianist at the recent Sydney International Piano Competition as well as first prize winner at the Australian National Piano Award (Shepparton). The wonderfully high standard of this performer continues the reputation for excellence achieved by Arts Bundanoon over the last three years. With next year’s Music at 10 series already fully programmed, it is possible to look forward to another year of wonderful music, providing opportunities to connect with the Western classical music tradition and to leave the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall feeling a little richer and a little happier. Our artists also appreciate Bundanoon for its warm audiences and the cafés serving locally made fare. Mia Huang will open our 2018 season in February, making her fourth appearance here. Mia is a Canberra-based student and a most talented pianist, sharing a great rapport with our audience. March’s Music at 10 will offer Ben Adler, violinist, and his associate, pianist Will Cesta, who have previously appeared here together to a most enthusiastic audience. Ben has appeared on several other occasions, always to great acclaim, including with Alisa Yuko Bernhard who is now one of our solo performers. Alisa will appear at Music at 10 in September. We are grateful to Professor Daniel Herscovitch for years of dependable appearances at Music at 10 at which he has provided refined interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert. Daniel will return in October. An important complimentary activity for Arts Bundanoon this year has been to foster a Saturday morning series, Intimate Voices , utilising the lovely acoustics of the “Old Methodist Church”. This small and cosy venue brings audiences even closer to the performers than in the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, enabling them to hear every note played on quiet instruments. The series began on Saturday, 22nd July 2017 with the guitarist, Ciaran Edwards-McKeown. This extraordinarily gifted musician presented a programme of Bach, Scarlatti and Schubert arrangements along with works by Tarrega, Rodrigo and Barrios- Mangore. The local voices of Bundanoon Sings! provided a joyful and popular second concert on 23rd September 2017. The success of our concerts rests upon the support of our audiences plus our small team of volunteers who each give just a few hours of work per month. If you have enjoyed being in the audience, we ask you to consider bringing the gift of music to others in 2018 by becoming an Arts Bundanoon volunteer. — Neil Mitchell As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect our achievemets for 2017 and start planning for 2018. The President’s Cup is a monthly competition covering a wide range of topics and is open to all members. The winner of the Cup is chosen by the members by popular vote. The voting can be a little chaotic at times but is always a fun process. Our subject titles are open to broad interpretation, providing scope for photographers to use their imagination. Plans are well advanced for our Annual Christmas Dinner and Presentation Night. It is the night at which one of our members will win the annual award for the best images and receive the trophy for the President’s Annual Award. The winner of the trophy is selected from the monthly competitons winners. Last year’s winner was a worthy entry from Meg Nurse. By the time you read this we will have completed our series of photographic lessons for the year, the November topic being ‘post-processing’ – a challenge for all photographers! Our monthly meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month and we have photo outings on the fourth Thursday. Destinations for our outing are chosen to provide variety and opportunity. Recently we visited Thirlmere Rail Museum which provided a rich source of subjects for all styles of photography. Our club nights offer a friendly atmosphere to share our photographs and experiences in a relaxed and friendly environment. We meet on the second Thursday of each month at the Bundanoon Men’s Shed, Burgess Street Bundanoon at 5.30PM. —Peter Gray New members are welcome, please contact: • President, Peter Gray on 4883 6312 or 041 922 3928 • Secretary, Joy Brown on 4883 6456 • or e-mail photos2578gmail.com Bundanoon Photography Group The winner of October’s competition, ‘Lines and Curves’, was Joy Brown – well done Joy! December 2017 12 jcg