Sculthorpe Tributes
As the nation reflects on the legacy of Peter Sculthorpe, writers review his life and work:
Click here to read Vincent Plush in The Australian, Philip Jones in The Australian, Joel Meares in the Sydney Morning Herald.
As the nation reflects on the legacy of Peter Sculthorpe, writers review his life and work:
Click here to read Vincent Plush in The Australian, Philip Jones in The Australian, Joel Meares in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Having collaborated on the recent production of The Threepenny Opera, conductor and music educator Richard Gill and performer Eddie Perfect have struck another chord in the field of music education: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/odd-couple-stand-for-classical-ideals-20111015-1lq64.html Checkout also this brilliant presentation by Richard Gill for TEDx 2011 on “The Value of Music Education”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRus3NVbwE
The La Traviata chandelier arrives! Images by James Morgan courtsey of Opera Australia
Just pretend you’re 17 years old. You have decisions to make that will have a major impact on the rest of your life. It is not about choosing HSC subjects or whether to take a year off after school. These decisions are more definitive. They are what soprano Allegra Giagu faced when she was just this…
Catherine Carby, mezzo –soprano, soprano Leah Thomas and pianist Sharolyn Kimmorley perform a programme of Scandinavian art songs this weekend for Art Song NSW (see “On Wings of Art Song”). The vocal repertoire is replete with works in French, German and Italian. Even Russian and Czech are regularly heard in opera and art song. But…
APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) have announced the announce the finalists for the 2016 Art Music Awards. The nominees come from 11 categories reflecting the diversity of art music which has been written, composed and performed around the nation in 2015. They encompass a diversity of repertoire from jazz compositions and large-scale…
This is an absolutely fascinating animation from the New York Times of the connection between a conductor’s gestures, the responses of the musicians and the sounds that are created. Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic talks it through: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/06/arts/music/the-connection-between-gesture-and-music.html?ref=classicalmusic#