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⚫ Matthew Whiteside's Remixes: Crossing boundaries between contemporary classical, experimental electronic, ambient and electroacoustic ⚫ The songs of William Busch: revealing the quietly distinctive voice of an underexplored composer ⚫ Two moments in time: String Orchestra of Brooklyn with a work written for 2020's Lockdown, and another evoking the opening of Honolulu's contemporary art museum in 1980 ⚫ Colour and movement: Gilbert & Sullivan returns to Opera Holland Park with HMS Pinafore ⚫ Operatic wit & style in West End: Donizetti's Rita at Charing Cross Theatre ⚫ Ethel Smyth in lighter mode: The Boatswain's Mate returns to the Grimeborn Festival
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⚫ Prom 39: a Turnage premiere, a Vaughan Williams rarity and an Elgar Symphony ⚫ Prom 43: Handel's Solomon from Sofi Jeannin, BBC Singers, The English Concert and Iestyn Davies ⚫ Spirit and abandon: Ethel Smyth's Mass at the BBC Proms returns the work home, to the hall where it premiered in 1891
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⚫ Warmth and humanity: British Youth Opera celebrates its 35th anniversary with Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love ⚫ A light touch and some rattling good tunes: Puccini's La rondine from IF Opera at Belcombe Court We recognise Tasmania deserves better and we believe Tasmanians want a better deal on forests than the slim and bitter pickings the Liberals have on offer.⚫ Devastating intensity: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius from Allan Clayton, London Philharmonic, Edward Gardner at Prom 59
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With Forest Stewardship Certification looking more and more like a distant dream, the best the Liberals' apparently have to offer is the same old spin from Guy Barnett, and actions that are designed to whip up conflict over high conservation value forests. The Liberals don't understand the meaning of the word 'sustainable', evidenced by the fact their draft rainforest logging plan projects logging special species to the level of zero resource available. They have no credibility on forestry and under the Liberals there will be no 'sustainable' forestry policy. This is nothing more than sneaky accounting to gloss over the Liberals' failure on forestry in the lead up to a State election. The Liberals’ are selling the one FT asset that could make it a profit in the future. Mr Barnett’s announcement Forestry Tasmania’s plantations may have a buyer, reaffirms his commitment to privatise the only profitable part of the mendicant GBE. The spin doctors in the Liberal offices must have been really pleased when they came up with that one. Minister Barnett’s celebration today is as laughable as is his Orwellian rebrand and rename of Forestry Tasmania to Sustainable Timber Tasmania. In Tasmania's industrial native forest logging industry, there's a public dollar or a million of them, behind every aspect of the operation, from growing, harvesting, transporting and processing to exports. They've increased funding to FT by $8 million per annum according to the Budget papers, and internalized and hidden the true costs of production, with tens of millions in subsidies locked in to existing forestry contracts over the next decade. The Liberals haven’t 'ended the subsidies'. The Liberals’ restructure of Forestry Tasmania has simply forced the GBE to sell its only potential profit making assets - the plantations - and moved the subsidies around to conceal the true extent of ongoing public funding for this industry. Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens' Leader and Forests spokesperson