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Alice Cooper On Narrating ‘Peter And The Wolf In Hollywood’
Despite an on-stage persona that was designed to shock, rocker Alice Cooper has demonstrated his softer side with his latest venture as…
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Features in Bond Movie
Premiering in Sydney tonight is the eagerly anticipated new James Bond film Spectre – and the soundtrack has a very special Sydney connection. …
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Richard Gill Delivers 2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address On The Case For New Music
Earlier this week, respected music director and educator Richard Gill OAM, delivered the 17th annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks address on the topic of…
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Grigoryans Re-release Rodrigo Guitar Concertos
It was 75 years ago, on November 9 in 1940 that Joaquín Rodrigo’s (1901 – 1999) Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra…
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Composer And Pianist Matt McMahon Talks About New Band Launch
When nationally renowned viola da gambist Jenny Eriksson formed Australia’s first electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields, she had one…
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‘What’s wrong with the classical concert experience in the 21st century?’
“Because we live in a culture…… where visual stimuli are in the ascendant, sometimes at the cost of sound. Sound is no…
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Nicole Car Wins Hearts In Her Covent Garden Debut
….meantime at London’s Royal Opera in Covent Garden, Australian soprano Nicole Car has won hearts with her portrayal of Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen.…
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Seong-Jin Cho Wins Chopin Piano Competition
Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea has been announced as the winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition recently concluded in Warsaw.…
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Beethoven’s Symphonies Analysed
Gramophone Magazine has packaged its explorations of all of Beethoven’s symphonies by nine leading international conductors – Norrington, Zinman, Jansons, Vänskä, Gardiner,…
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Benedict Andrews’ bohème for The ENO Raises Controversy
Australian theatre director Benedict Andrews’ vision of Puccini’s opera La bohème opened at the English National Opera this week. The director has raised controversy…