The Australian Chamber Orchestra has just announced its 2013 season. Andreas Scholl sings Vivaldi, Barry Humphries presents music from Berlin, Martin Fröst plays Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Patricia Kopatchinskaja guest directs from the violin. There’s music by Brahms, Brett Dean, Ginastera and Rautavaara in the mix. More at:
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…
“….the entire issue of music education is becoming an ever bigger issue all over Europe. Apart from the obvious cultural value, employers want people who can work in teams, think laterally and not in straight lines, all of which music gives you in spades. A free music education was one of the glories of the…
The unique operatic heritage of two of Australia’s greatest icons, Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge will be celebrated and preserved for posterity in a limited release collection from Universal Music in association with the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonyge Foundation. Only 90 copies have been produced of this deluxe limited edition exclusive to the…
The Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 80 today! Eleven musicians from the brass section of the Sydney Symphony scaled the bridge to perform from the top. Guess what they played?! Check out these features: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/featurenews/view/1189848/1/.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/13205823/sydney-harbour-bridge-turns-80/
Available today is a new recording of Vivaldi’s vocal music Gloria, from the brilliant soprano Julia Lezhneva, with Argentinian counter-tenor Franco Fagioli and Swiss organist and conductor Diego Fasolis conducting the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera and I Barocchisti, today’s Vivaldi interpreters par excellence. These stars of the Baroque have collaborated to record Vivaldi’s Gloria in D major RV 589, his…
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…