The Song Company review
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald.
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Ravi Shankar, the man who introduced Indian classical music and its instruments to the western world, died earlier this week in the US. He formed never before contemplated collaborations with musicians from The Beatles to Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Previn to Philip Glass, John Coltrane and Jean-Pierre Rampal. The three times Grammy award winner is the…
Ten young singers have been chosen from entrants around Australia and New Zealand to compete in the semi-finals of the 2023 IFAC Australian Singing Competition.
It’s on again! The world’s biggest music festival, the BBC Proms, will run for nearly 2 months in 2013 from July 12th to September 7th. Paganini and the sea feature in the famed opening night programme with Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony alongside Paganini inspired compositions by Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski….
It is surely a travesty for classical music in Australia that the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award is to be discontinued after being run annually for 71 years. More than just a contest, the nation’s only national fixture for emerging musicians has been operating since 1944 and has served as a platform for some of…
Who: Ensemble Offspring What: The works of Steve Reich When: February 7 @ 8 pm Where: St Mary’s Cathedral, Cathedral Square, Sydney, 2000 Australia Ensemble Offspring celebrates the work of legendary minimalist composer Steve Reich, performing a suite of his most pioneering, hypnotic music at Sydney’s new Sunset Piazza. Led by acclaimed percussionist Claire Edwardes, ARIA-nominated Sydney…
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod: http://www.sydneyeisteddfod.com.au/Results_2012.htm