To be honest, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see people on their feet and swaying to the music at some points in the evening.
It’s one of those interactions that captures the tensions between ‘old’ and ‘new’ audiences for classical music, but it’s also an illustration of the viscerally infectious appeal of this collaboration between the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Egyptian-Australian oud master Joseph Tawadros, and his percussionist brother James Tawadros. It wasn’t long before she got The Glare, of course, courtesy of a gentleman in front.
Caught up in the moment, a woman in the row behind me was moved to sing along to Vivaldi’s
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