'We really loved the portraits you created for us, it was fun & easy and we had so many to choose from making it difficult to narrow down! Many thanks...

Dana, Wollstonecraft

Thanks Elizabeth, the photos are really beautiful, we love them...

Sarah, Balgowlah

Limelight December 2004 "The best of 2004: Upon a Time"

"Knife-juggling virtuosity from these two in a rich yet minimalist package. There are things to look at and think about as well as to listen to. A very appealing combination, and the legend that binds it all together is a soul-jolter, just quietly."

Charles Southwood

Upon a Time
A mediaeval fable for recorder, pipe and tabor
Reviewed by Neville Cohn

This is a delightful compilation, a collection of musical miniatures, pieces drawn from mediaeval manuscripts kept at the British Library, the Vatican, Oxford's Corpus Christi College and other libraries in Florence and Wiesbaden. Apart from two pieces attributed to Hildegard von Bingen, all the music is anonymous. A liner note points out that the printed folk tale (about a shepherd and his young son who are bewitched by mysterious forces) is not related to the music other than in the sense of dating back to a similar epoch. The music, moreover, does not follow the narrative sequence. An attractively packaged CD is illustrated with Elizabeth O'Donnell's haunting black-and-white photographs taken in Botswana, Italy and Australia.

Neville Cohn, 2004