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Opera Australia Awarded Grant to Tour ‘Shane Warne The Musical’ To India
In its 2014-15 round of grants, the Australia-India Council Grants Program, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,…
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Spot The Star – Musicians From Around The World Launch BBC Music
The BBC has new initiative, BBC Music. To celebrate its launch, a bevy of 27 musicians from around the world and across…
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New Arrangements of Old Masterpieces
Last week, SoundsLikeSydney reviewed a concert by the Australian Haydn Ensemble which included important transcriptions of two major works for smaller ensembles.…
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A New Chief Conductor for The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, reputedly the world’s best, has announced that the Milan born Daniele Gatti will take up the position of…
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2014 ARIA Fine Arts Winners Announced
The 2014 ARIA Fine Arts Awards were announced earlier today. Congratulations to ABC Classics which won all four of the Fine Arts…
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Quiz: Who Really Wrote These Famous Pieces of Music?
Who wrote Greensleeves? And where does the opening theme of The Rite of Spring come from? Some interesting revelations in this quiz…
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Nominees For The 2014 ARIA Best Classical Album Fine Arts Awards
Nominees for the 28th annual ARIA Awards have been announced and we have the list of contenders for the title of Best…
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Web-Based Music Projects – Six Of The Best
BBC Music Magazine nominates its 6 best web-based music projects to celebrate 25 years of the World Wide Web – Eric Whitacre’s Virtual…
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Mozart Score Discovered
The original score of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major K 331 – the one that contains the famous Rondo alla…
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Jessye Norman On Critics And Casting
“They might write it but darling, I don’t read it – I don’t need it”. So says the legendary soprano Jessye Norman…