Conductor and music educator Richard Gill is passionate about the importance of expertly taught music in the school curriculum. He says ‘ unless children are receiving a first-rate music education, taught by teachers who know about music, children’s brains are being starved, in part, of the necessary stimulants that generate creativity in an individual.’
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Arts Minister Simon Crean has made two new appointments to the Australia Council for the Arts as a review calls for its reform: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/how-to-finance-a-cultural-utopia/story-e6frg8n6-1226362737526 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/appointments-follow-a-review-of-the-australia-council/story-e6frg8n6-1226362844473
With the recent news that the 2013 Nobel prize winner for medicine Thomas Sudhof drew on his classical music training for inspiration, this feature in the New York Times describes how music promotes creative thinking and success in other aspects of like. “Music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that…
Jennifer Eriksson, viola da gamba player, founder and Artistic Director of The Marais Project recently spent a residency at The Banff Centre in Canada, curating the ensemble’s most recent concert. It was an intensely creative and enriching time. She tells of her experiences in her own words: In January and February 2013 I undertook at short…
‘Papa’ Haydn earned his nickname for fostering instrumental works – symphonic and chamber. Yet, it’s often forgotten that he wrote as many as 15 operas. Read more from Tom Service.
Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera Australia delivers the 2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks address, and held each year by the New Music Network to stimulate thought in creating and performing music in Australia. This year’s topic was Populism as Art and the Art of Populism.In his address, Terracini applies this statement to the future of opera…
QUIZ: BOOKS INTO MUSIC Test your passion for books, opera, or both! Name these literary pieces and their author and then the operas on which they are based and the composers who wrote them. Good luck! In this novella from 1937, two homeless ranch workers George Milton and Lennie Small, traverse California looking for work…