A conservator's masterpiece

CONSERVATION expert Tam Peirce is sad to leave his Mount Macedon home, Terramia, built as a tribute to the skills of a bygone era.

The Cream Of Classical

WHAT Wanderings

Team Effort In Sweet Music

TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 4 Team of Pianists. Rippon Lea Ballroom, July 20. www.teamofpianists.com.au

Duo Shines As Violist Sets Pace

TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC Rippon Lea Ballroom, Ripponlea, June 15 www.teamofpianists.com.au

Team Workover Grand Affair

TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC 1 Rippon Lea, April 23 www.teamofpianists.com.au

Dance

WHAT Rippon Lea Renaissance Dancers WHERE Rippon Lea Estate, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick WHEN Tomorrow, 2.15pm, 3.15pm COST Adults $12, children $6.50, concession $9, family $30. Discounts for National Trust members BOOKINGS 9523 6095

Can We Still Place Our Trust In The Keepers Of Victoria's Heritage?

ALMOST 30 years ago, 10,0000 Melburnians rallied on the lawns of Rippon Lea mansion as part of a landmark campaign to thwart the Federal Government's compulsory purchase of the historic Elsternwick mansion.

Fight The Good Fight

Rippon Lea's owner fought long and hard to preserve its glorious grounds, writes Mary Ryllis Clark.

Cold Comfort In Rippon Lea Recital

MUSIC REVIEW: TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC REVIEW: Rippon Lea, May 16

A Gem Survives 30 Years In The Public Eye

It took 10 years to win the battle for Rippon Lea, Jason Dowling reports.

A Stately Statement Of Status

Even their names conjure up a gracious age, times when garden parties were de rigueur. Raheen, Rippon Lea, Como: these stately mansions remain as monuments to Marvellous Melbourne, a period late last century when the city was Australia's most prosperous. Victoria had one of the highest rates of

Feelgood Family Fare Transforms Rippon Lea Into Green Gables

Theatre Anne of Green Gables PERFORMING ARTS PROJECTS has created quite a niche for itself at the Rippon Lea gardens. Its succession of inventive and original outdoor productions, including Loving Friends, Indian Summer and Lady Chatterley's Lover, has done much to enhance and establish Mel

Settling Into A Leisurely Stride

MUSIC. Quartetto Beethoven di Roma, Concert Hall, Tuesday. Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea No. 1: Pianists Robert Chamberlain and Daryl Coote, Rippon Lea, Wednesday. Astra Concert Series No. 1, St Mary's Star-of-the-Sea, West Melbourne, Saturday. ABC Great Performers Series No. 1: B

Heritage With Bite

ANTIQUE apples are joining heirloom tomatoes as desirable components of 1990s kitchen gardens. Interested gardeners can see such apples growing in Melbourne and near Castlemaine, taste them and buy them for their own gardens. The two Melbourne outlets, Rippon Lea at Elsternwick and Petty's Orchar

When The Best Seats Are In The Garden

MELBOURNE'S parks and gardens have become a stage this summer for a boom in outdoor children's theatre. At least 15 outdoor shows are being staged in the school holidays at venues including the Botanic Gardens, Yarra Bend Park, Rippon Lea, the Collingwood children's farm and Puffing Billy's Emera

Energetic Interpretation Delivered With Panache

Leslie Howard in Recital. The Mozart Collection Series No. 3: violin Deborah Fox, conductor Brett Kelly. Hawthorn Town Hall, Sunday. Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea Series No. 4: oboe Anne Silby, violin Robert Macindoe, piano Darryl Coote. Rippon Lea, Sunday. IN THE first half of his pian

A Rhapsody Of Dynamic Manoeuvres

Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea No. 3: Craig Hill clarinet, Lynore McWhirter soprano, Robert Chamberlain piano. Rippon Lea, Sunday. AS THIS series of recitals draws to a close, the quality of performance maintains a high level. In the latest event, a neatly contrived program gave us some fam

Hey, It's The Rippon Lea Hill-billies!

The four ``men" sitting in front of the gardeners' cottage at Rippon Lea estate can only be described as country bumpkins. Their clothes are old and patched, and one fellow rests his foot on a pumpkin. Another has a straw in his mouth, while a third holds a gnarled stick. But it is hard n

(`lady Chatterley's Lover' In A Romp At Rippon Lea)

`Lady Chatterley's Lover' in a romp at Rippon Lea. FANCY A ROMP amid the well-manicured gardens of Rippon Lea? Not at this time of the year, of course, but in early January, when the weather is more conducive to outdoor activities. The Performing Arts Project, the very imaginative theatre com

Rippon Lea Is Idyllic For The Perambulatory Play

An Indian Summer (Rippon Lea) IF THERE is a natural theatre setting more atmospheric than the Royal Botanic Gardens where `A Midsummer Night's Dream' is playing, it must be the gardens of historic Rippon Lea. Two years ago one of Melbourne's more innovative theatre groups, Performing Arts Project