The White Hat Guide to Perth

Perth Moonlight Cinema

• Thursday 15th December 2011 - The Debt (MA15+)
• Friday 16th December 2011 - Johnny English Reborn (PG)
• Saturday 17th December 2011 - Alvin And The Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked (G)
• Sunday 18th December 2011 - Crazy, Stupid, Love. (M)
• Tuesday 20th December 2011 - In Time (M)
• Wednesday 21st December 2011 - Drive (MA15+)
• Thursday 22nd December 2011 - Arthur Christmas (G)
• Friday 23rd December 2011 - We Bought A Zoo (PG)
• Monday 26th December 2011 - Midnight In Paris (PG)
• Tuesday 27th December 2011 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (M)
• Wednesday 28th December 2011 - The Smurfs (G)
• Thursday 29th December 2011 - Contagion (M)
• Friday 30th December 2011 - Top Gun (PG)
• Sunday 1st January 2012 - The Muppets (G)
• Tuesday 3rd January 2012 - Moneyball (M)
• Wednesday 4th January 2012 - Arrietty (CTC)
• Thursday 5th January 2012 - Immortals (MA15+)
• Friday 6th January 2012 - The Ides Of March (M)
• Saturday 7th January 2012 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG)
• Sunday 8th January 2012 - The Ages Of Love (MA15+)
• Tuesday 10th January 2012 - The Inbetweeners Movie (MA15+)
• Wednesday 11th January 2012 - The Breakfast Club (M)
• Thursday 12th January 2012 - Jack and Jill (PG)
• Friday 13th January 2012 - Puss In Boots (PG)
• Saturday 14th January 2012 - The Darkest Hour (CTC)
• Sunday 15th January 2012 - Red Dog (PG) - Doggie Night - Bring your dog along. (Rules Apply)
• Tuesday 17th January 2012 - Dirty Dancing (M)
• Wednesday 18th January 2012 - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (M)
• Thursday 19th January 2012 - Monty Python's Life of Brian (M)
• Friday 20th January 2012 - New Year's Eve (M)
• Saturday 21st January 2012 - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (M)
• Sunday 22nd January 2012 - J. Edgar (M)
• Tuesday 24th January 2012 - Grease Sing-A-Long (PG)
• Wednesday 25th January 2012 - A Few Best Men (CTC)
• Friday 27th January 2012 - Midnight In Paris (PG)
• Saturday 28th January 2012 - Dolphin Tale (PG)
• Sunday 29th January 2012 - The Sitter (CTC)
• Tuesday 31st January 2012 - The Princess Bride (PG)
• Wednesday 1st February 2012 - Attack The Block (MA15+)
• Thursday 2nd February 2012 - Tower Heist (M)
• Friday 3rd February 2012 - Warhorse (M)
• Saturday 4th February 2012 - Happy Feet Two (PG)
• Sunday 5th February 2012 - The Iron Lady (M)
• Tuesday 7th February 2012 - Flying Swords Of The Dragon Gate (CTC)
• Wednesday 8th February 2012 - We Bought A Zoo (PG)
• Thursday 9th February 2012 - Carnage (CTC)
• Friday 10th February 2012 - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (CTC)
• Saturday 11th February 2012 - Don Giovanni (CTC)
• Sunday 12th February 2012 - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (CTC)
• Tuesday 14th February 2012 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (PG)
• Wednesday 15th February 2012 - Melancholia (M)
• Thursday 16th February 2012 - The Descendants (M)
• Friday 17th February 2012 - The Skin I Live In (MA15+)
• Saturday 18th February 2012 - The Adventures Of Tintin (PG)

Perth Moonlight Cinema - The Princess Bride

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Attack The Block

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Tower Heist

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Warhorse

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Happy Feet Two

Perth Moonlight Cinema - The Iron Lady

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Flying Swords Of The Dragon Gate

Perth Moonlight Cinema - We Bought A Zoo

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Carnage

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Don Giovanni /i>

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Perth Moonlight Cinema - Melancholia

Perth Moonlight Cinema - The Descendants

Perth Moonlight Cinema - The Skin I Live In

Perth Moonlight Cinema - The Adventures Of Tintin

Chopin & Mendelssohn's Octet

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin) and Polina Leschenko (piano).  The orchestras three wonderful heritage violins – a Stradivari, a Guarneri and a Guadagnini - will display their wares in the Paganini caprices. Chopin's first piano concerto is a much loved work full of romantic lyricism and although Górecki is best known for his haunting and heartfelt Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, his Piano Concerto bristles with driving rhythms and energy. The concert ends with one of the glories of chamber music - Mendelssohn's Octet. In White Hat's experience ACO's performance of this work is the equal of any performance you are likely to hear anywhere else in the world.

• Paganini (arr. Tognetti) Caprice on Caprices
• Morricone Exercises I: Adagio
• Chopin (arr. Tognetti) Piano Concerto No.1
• Górecki Piano Concerto
• Mendelssohn Octet (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

Tafelmusik - The Galileo Project Music of the Spheres

Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik will take you on an epic space odyssey, performing period music before stunning images from the Hubble deep space telescope. Combining music, photography and story-telling, The Galileo Project brings to life the brilliant minds of the early astronomers and the music that inspired them, as a large-scale, ever-changing backdrop of stars and planets unfolds.

The publicity states "Using the best of Bach, Handel, Monteverdi and Vivaldi, come and hear the tunes that were probably stuck in Galileo’s head when he discovered the moons of Jupiter." Now you are probably thinking, like White Hat how could tunes of composers who hadn't been born yet be stuck in his head. However we are sure that this program has been meticulously researched so all will be revealed. The program will also feature works by Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Telemann & Michelangelo Galilei brother of the astronomer). From the reputation of the group and the reviews of this concert, White Hat suggests you go out of your way to attend.

[For those wanting a little background to the history of the concept that over the centuries was known as The Music of the Spheres, White Hat suggests that you consult the program notes of Music of the Spheres - given by Ars Nova of Melbourne. This concert is unrelated to the one above but was also based on the relationship composers, mathematicians and scientists long saw between music, mathematics and the heavenly bodies.]

Australian String Quartet - Towards Light

• Sculthorpe String Quartet No 11
• Dvořák String Quartet No 10 in E flat major, Op 51
• Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op 57 (with Daniel de Borah, piano) (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

Our rating: Four Hats

Passion Concer

A Tea Party at Hillman House

St Lawrence String Quartet and Diana Doherty

• Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F minor, op 20 wno 5
• Gordon Kerry Elegy for String Quartet (2007)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
• Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet no 4 in C minor, op 18 no 4
• Matthew Hindson Rush for oboe and string quartet (2002)

Chris Ferreira's Sustainable Garden

The food-growing area has been revamped to make it more sustainable, and the waterwise credentials of the site have been bolstered with the addition of a greywater system, in-line drip irrigation and waterwise species. New plantings include deciduous trees and vines, screening and sheltering windbreaks, and a rejuvenation of the native garden at the front.

This event is part of the wonderful Australia's Open Garden Scheme. Teas and refreshments will be available and there'll be plenty of activities for children. Chris will give talks at 11am & 2pm

Trio Dali

The young and glamorous French trio are named after a Chinese marble, rather than the Spanish artist. With two of the great works from the piano trio repertoire, White Hat suspects this may turn out to be a memorable concert.

• Gordon Kerry Im Winde (2000)
• Maurice Ravel Piano Trio in A minor (1914) (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)
• Franz Schubert Piano Trio no 2 in E flat major, op 100 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

Australian String Quartet - Legacy

• Beethoven String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3

• Brett Dean Epitaphs for Viola and String Quartet

• Brahms String Quintet in G, Op 111 (with Brett Dean, viola)

Takács Quartet

White Hat expects that this may well be on of the standout chamber music concerts of the year in Australia. Debussy's delicate and atmospheric string quartet together with Janáček's passionate first quartet both played by the ensemble most acknowledge to be one of the finest string quartets in the world.

• Leoš Janáček String Quartet no 1, ‘Kreutzer’ (1923)
• Benjamin Britten String Quartet no 1 in D major, op 25
• Gordon Kerry Variations for string quartet (2006)
• Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor, op 10

Amarcord

White Hat suggests that if you want to become a world class a capella ensemble, a good tsarting point is growing up singing Bach as boy sopranos in the Leipzig church where Bach himself presided. Since that time Amacord have gone on to be regarded as one of the finest male vocal ensembles in the world.

The Singing Club – Four Centuries of Song Renaissance madrigals, part-songs by Schubert, Schumann, Elgar, Dvorák, Grieg and others, alongside folk songs from around the world.

Beethoven 9 - Ode to Joy

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin), Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Graham Ross Director), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Fiona Campbell (mezzo soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor) Matthew Brook (bass)

White Hat has long believed that many modern performance of Beethoven symphonies by large symphony orchestras lack the vitality and drive of a performance by a first rate chamber orchestra - supplemented where necessary - of the proportions that Beethoven was writing for For those who share this view we suggest you look no further. Critics called the ACO's recent Beethoven concert in London “the finest concert of the summer” and spoke of “thrilling playing”, “vibrant drive” and “total involvement”, concluding, “this compact chamber orchestra matches anything Europe can offer in energy, precision and interpretative rigour.”

Joined by one of the finest British choirs this concert promises to be something special where every note Beethoven wrote can be heard rather than lost in a sea of overblown orchestral 'atmosphere'.

• Messiaen Prayer of Christ ascending towards his Father, from L’Ascension
• Brahms Geistliches Lied
• Beethoven Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
• Beethoven Symphony No.9 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Symphonies)

Australian String Quartet - Sunrise

• Haydn String Quartet No 78 in B flat, Op 76 No 4 "Sunrise"
• Wilfred Lehmann Clarinet Quintet
• Weber Clarinet Quintet
• Bartók String Quartet No 4 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

Kuss Quartet & Naoko Smizu

• Gordon Kerry String Quintet (2012)
• Bedrich Smetana String Quartet no 2 in D minor (c 1882-3)
• György Kurtag Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op 28
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet no 3 in C major, K515

Mozart, Handel & Vivaldi Concertos

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Egarr (Guest Director, Harpsichord, Fortepiano) and Satu Vänskä (Lead Violin)

Keyboard players, conductor, historian, and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr directs this concert from the harpsichord and performs Mozart's delightful Piano Concerto No.12 on the fortepiano. White Hat suggests you take the opportunity to hear the difference it make to have a Mozart concerto played on the fortepiano rather than an overblown concert grand. Satu Vänskä is soloist in a Vivaldi concerto on the ACO's Stradivarius violin.

• Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
• Castello Two Sonatas, “per stromenti d’arco”
• Biber Battalia
• Vivaldi Violin Concerto, RV190
• Mozart Piano Concerto No.12
• Handel Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1

Russian Visions

Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir is one of his sunniest and most exuberant works and Shostakovich's first piano concerto is full of pyrotechnics for the pianist and accompanying trumpet. What is sometimes less recognised is that this work calls for first rate string playing from the orchestra. For that reason, White Hat suggests you take the opportunity to get along and hear it with one of the best string ensembles in Australia - or any other country for that matter.

• Prokofiev (arr. Barshai/Tognetti) Visions fugitives
• Shotakovich Piano Concerto No.1
• Shotakovich Octet
• Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is justifiably well-known and loved as one of the great works of the violin sonata repertoire. However White Hat believes that Debussy's Violin Sonata, the last work he completed and the last that he performed in public, is yet to be afforded the status it deserves by the public. This fine pair of instrumentalists are sure to do them both justice.

• Gordon Kerry Martian Snow (2008)
• Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata no 9 in A major, ‘Kreutzer’, op 47 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)
• Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor (c 1916-17)
• Franz Schubert Fantasie in C major, D934