Celebrate spring with ArtSong NSW

Celebrate spring with ArtSong NSW

Taking its name from Johann Strauss II’s immortal waltz Frühlingsstimmen(“Voices of Spring”), ArtSong NSW presents its own eponymously titled soiree later this month. Celebrating the change of season, this concert is part of the Willoughby Spring Festival, and is being held in The Studio which is part of the exciting new Performing Arts Precinct at the…

Artsongs from the new world

Artsongs from the new world

America isn’t a nation that is usually associated with Artsong. Indeed American Artsong is a relatively young genre with tentative beginnings in the 18th century, which evolved through the decades in the hands of composers like Stephen Foster, Louis Gottschalk and Edward MacDowell in the 19th century, to the exquisite compositions of Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein,…