A night of entertainment in the style the American troops enjoyed in the 1940s is promised with an event headed for the Royal Exchange Salon Theatre.
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Featuring dancers, singers, showgirls, circus acts and more, the organisers of the USO Show claim it to be a production that 1940s enthusiasts shouldn’t miss.
Audience members are encouraged to dress in the USO theme with a prize for best dressed on offer and be prepared to head to the dance floor with the music of the lindy hop, the jitterbug, the East Coast Swing.
The show comes to the Royal Exchange Salon Theatre on Bolton Street, Newcastle on Saturday, November 3 from 7pm.
Tickets can be booked via www.eventbrite.com.au
Music a peace reflection
The song Company returns to Newcastle next month, bringing with it a reflection on peace and a celebration of 100 years since the end of the Great War.
The poetry of 17th-century metaphysician John Donne and the late playwright Douglas Muecke form the twin doors to a ‘world of remembrance and resurgence’ in a program framed by newly-commissioned music by three Australian composers: Ruth McCall, Ella Macens, and Ross Edwards.
The performance will take place at the Newcastle Conservatorium on November 1.
"The last of our four Imagin'd Corners, this is a program that returns to the vocal virtuosity for which The Song Company is so well-known,” The Song Company’s Artistic Director said.
“With seven brand-new pieces by Ella Macens, Ruth McCall, and Ross Edwards, as well as a striking motet by Owen Elsley, we are proud to be boldly championing Australian music for voices. There's a good deal of beautiful music in the program, including Russian composers Rachmaninov and Kalinnikov, and my own setting of John Donne's One Equal Music, part of a Requiem for former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.”
For more info visit www.song.company/one-equal-music
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