There are changes afoot in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, aimed at improving the acoustic. More at:
What’s the obsession with expecting musicians to have the stamina of an athlete, the technique of the possessed and the looks of a deity?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/making-beautiful-music/story-fn9n8gph-1226416992126
Review the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s current touring programme:
Pianist Steven Osborne presents his insights into Olivier Messien’s Quartet for the End of Time, a landmark work for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, composed whilst Messiaen was an inmate of a Nazi prisoners of war camp and premiering in that camp in 1941, performed by Messiaen and three other prisoners.
Musica Viva has announced its 2019 line-up of international touring artists, morning concerts, masterclasses, educational and mentoring programmes, festivals and composers’ programmes – and it’s a feast of some of the best in chamber music form around the world. Musica Viva, Australia’s oldest independent professional performing arts organisation opens its 2019 season in February with…
András Schiff releases a 2 CD set entitled Clavichord playing the keyboard works of JS Bach on the clavichord.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra prepares to open its 2012 season with four performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony over the coming week. Check out this witty Q and A with Philip Glass from the UK Guardian on the curse of composing a Ninth Symphony. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/05/pass-notes-ninth-symphony
In this centenary year of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Opera Australia is presenting his satirical gem Albert Herring in the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre in August. Conducted by Anthony Legge, Kanen Breen as Herring and Jacqueline Dark as Lady Billows head a superb ensemble which includes Sian Pendry, Dominica Matthews, Elvira Fatykhova, Michael Lewis, John Longmuir, Conal Coad, Roxane Hislop…
Calling all singing medicos! Expressions of interest are sought from medical students and medical practitioners to form DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir, a one-off choir which will sing with a doctors orchestra in late 2018 or early 2019. If you love singing but don’t have time for a regular commitment then this exciting project could be…