Reviews
‘Fast Blue Village’: Kats-Chernin has the last laugh
Fast Blue Village has the perfect formula – an immensely popular living composer, an ensemble selected by her to record her music and a recording producer with a sharply…
Month: May 2012
News
The inspirational power of Fischer-Dieskau
Rising opera singer and lyric baritone Raphael Hudson explains why Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s legacy is so central to the art of singing and expresses a…
Shows
A tribute to Kathleen Ferrier
One hundred years after her birth in 1912, and her untimely death in 1952 aged 41, the English contralto Kathleen Ferrier remains a revered…
Shows
Sydney Independent Opera’s double bill – Holst and Puccini
Sydney Independent Opera present an unusual double bill this weekend with its productions of Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Puccini’s The…
News
Manhattan School of Music comments on ANU School of Music re-structure
Academics from New York’s Manhattan School of Music comment on the re-structure at the ANU School of Music in Canberra: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/music-schools-sour-note-20120527-1zcp1.html
Shows
Miranda Musical Society presents ‘Pippin’
Following Miranda Musical Society’s sensational production of Anything Goes, they present the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Pippin is an electrifying, tongue-in-cheek fairy tale that dazzles audiences…
News
Fischer-Dieskau’s artistic ideals
Last week the world mourned the death of the extraordinary baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, (b 1925) who would have turned 87 on May…
Music & Videos
The ‘art’ of Fischer-Dieskau
When Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau died last week, his career as a singer was dissected and analysed in meticulous details. The loss of his…
Shows
The Australian Chamber Orchestra on a wave with ‘The Reef’
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is back in Australia after its tour of the US which included a concert at Carnegie Hall…
News
The Australian String Quartet aims for a family of Guadagnini instruments
The Australian String Quartet and the Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation launch a fund to own outright the four precious Guadagnini instruments presently played by…