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matching North Melbourne, themes: 'built environment'
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Sound in Space
... Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne...Photograph: Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne...The Fitzroy Town Hall was designed by George Raymond Johnson who also designed the North Melbourne Town Hall and the Meat Market. The main hall of the Fitzroy Town Hall (1867) has a strongly theatrical mixture of flat floor, deep stage... Centre, North Melbourne, Friday July 24, 1987. The Astra Choir with soloists, instruments and cars, conducted by John McCaughey with the ensemble Pipeline and VCA trombone choir, directed by Simone De Haan. For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber ...Music always interacts with the architecture in which it is heard.
Melbourne has some wonderful acoustic environments. Often, these spaces were built for other purposes – for example the splendid public and ecclesiastical buildings from the first 100 years of the city’s history, and more recent industrial constructions.
Exploiting ‘non-customized’ spaces for musical performance celebrates and explores our architectural heritage.
For 30 years, the concerts of Astra Chamber Music Society have ranged around Melbourne’s architectural environment. Each concert has had a site-specific design that takes advantage of the marvellous visual qualities, spatial possibilities, and acoustic personality of each building.
The music, in turn, contributes a new quality to the perception of the buildings, now experienced by audiences as a sounding space - an area where cultural issues from music’s history are traversed, and new ideas in Australian composition are explored.
In this story take a tour of some of Melbourne’s intimate, hidden spaces and listen to the music that has filled their walls.
For further information about Astra Chamber Music Society click here.
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Brian AllisonJohn Harry Grainger
... in the Grainger Museum Collection, it is believed that his practice only worked on the interior. His firm was also responsible for the design of St Michael’s Catholic Church in North Melbourne. By 1910 the firm was reduced to Grainger and Little but continued ...Architect and Civil Engineer
John Harry Grainger was a creative figure, largely overlooked by history. He receives a brief mention in the much-examined life story of his famous son, the composer and pianist Percy Grainger, where he is depicted as a proud but ineffectual father.
Grainger's prolific output as an architect and his extraordinary talents for bridge building have not yet received due recognition.
The material presented here is sourced from the Grainger Museum Collection at the University of Melbourne. Additional material is held in the Public Record Office of Victoria and in the State Library of Victoria collections.
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History Teachers' Association of Victoria / Royal Historical Society of VictoriaMacRobertson's Confectionery Factory
... , a widower who worked at the Messers J. and T. Muir Iron Foundry on Leveson Street, North Melbourne. The inquest into the accident found that Hall had been drunk and that MacRobertson was not responsible for the accident. MacRobertson was keen to demonstrate ...MacRobertson Steam Confectionery Works was a confectionery company founded in 1880 by Macpherson Robertson and operated by his family in Fitzroy, Melbourne until 1967 when it was sold to Cadbury.
This story accompanies the 'Nail Can to Knighthood: the life of Sir Macpherson Robertson KBE' exhibition which took place at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015.
