City Recital Hall — Attraction in Sydney

We gathered for Mozart's Clarinet performance 🎼🎷 featuring a breathtaking trio of a pianist 🎹, cheloist 🎻 and clarinettist 🎶 playing some of Mozart's best works 👑🪄✨

🎵 The clarinettist—my word—was a revelation 😮👏. Such breath control 😮‍💨, such lyricism 🎼💫! The instrument practically wept 😢 in joy and sorrow 🕊️🎶.

The venue itself, the Sydney Recital Hall 🏛️🎟️, continues to be a beacon of cultural excellence 🇦🇺🌟. Entry was seamless 🚶‍♂️🚪, The theatre’s acoustics were absolutely marvellous 🎧💯—each note rang out crystal clear 💎🎶, like silver bells on a frosty morning 🔔❄️🎼.

Admittedly, the fire safety stairwell 🚨🧯 did smell a bit peculiar 🤨 something between damp carpet 🧼🧽 and burnt toast 🍞🔥 but the graffiti art 🎨🖌️, waz Koolio 😎🎉

Once inside, the hall opened up like a warm embrace 🤗✨. Plush seating 🪑, grand archways 🏰, and a soft golden glow 💡🌟 filled the room with elegance 👒🎻🕯️.

Fr tho 💯 overall very nice clean hall 🧼🧹 they got some cinema price snacks 🍿🥤 and ...

Terrible!!!! I attended the Ann Summers Interview with Annabelle Crabbe last night. I chose front row seats as I am hearing impaired, thinking that I could lip read if things went pear shaped. Pear shaped they went!. I managed to hear about 60% of the dialogue, My friend who is not hearing impaired said a lot of it was muffled for her too,compounded by Ann speaking too quickly and into her chest. As Annabelle was facing away from me I missed every single one of her clever punch lines!! Terrible. I am so disappointed, and for a venue which is renowned for its acoustics it is doubly disappointing. Anne Summers didn't bother doing a hearing check as Richard Gill always does, so I think the sound engineer needs a little talking to! A regular attender at Angel Place Recital...

The two things I remember about this place: How much like the inside of the Opera house this place is, but squarer and a little smaller and without the massive pipe organ, but there's radiata pine for days and joined together rows of comfy seats, plus you can take a beverage in with you and watch the songs play on in infinite golden array, or something. The other thing was the conductor - he of the "I'm so overwhelmingly pleased to be conducting an orchestra again I will jump into the air when high notes are required." I've never seen this and it's a sure sign of wild enthusiasm that is both contagious and a reminder of just how great it is to be out of lockdown. Even privileged people like me feel the...