Flying with instruments
Qantas announces its new instrument friendly travel plan:
Qantas announces its new instrument friendly travel plan:
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor David Robertson has nabbed a Grammy Award for best Orchestral Performance with his recording of John Adams’s City Noir and the Saxophone Concerto as conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It is reportedly the second win in three years for an Adams recording and the seventh for the SLSO….
Scroll down to see all eight images from Opera Australia’s current production of Verdi’s Otello. Read our review of Otello Images by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.
Scholars of J S Bach have studied his music for centuries. Is there anything more to learn? Paul Elie’s book ‘Reinventing Bach’ (Union Books) is reviewed by Ivan Hewitt of The Telegraph. Elie is an American writer, editor and is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Read the book revew…
The “visceral, ethereal quality of his playing” has likened him to Liszt, but it is the music of Rachmaninov which piano wunderkind Daniil Trifonov has been recording for release in Australia next month (September 11, 2015). Described by the Washington Post as “a pianist ahead of his time”, Trifonov says of Rachmaninov, “he is one of my…
Acclaimed conductor David Zinman conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during May this year in two programmes. Zinman is the Music Director of the Tonhalle in Zurich to which he was appointed in 1995. Renowned for his creative programming, he has also appeared as guest conductor with the major orchestras of the world – the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony,…
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor David Robertson has nabbed a Grammy Award for best Orchestral Performance with his recording of John Adams’s City Noir and the Saxophone Concerto as conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It is reportedly the second win in three years for an Adams recording and the seventh for the SLSO….
Scroll down to see all eight images from Opera Australia’s current production of Verdi’s Otello. Read our review of Otello Images by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.
Scholars of J S Bach have studied his music for centuries. Is there anything more to learn? Paul Elie’s book ‘Reinventing Bach’ (Union Books) is reviewed by Ivan Hewitt of The Telegraph. Elie is an American writer, editor and is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Read the book revew…
The “visceral, ethereal quality of his playing” has likened him to Liszt, but it is the music of Rachmaninov which piano wunderkind Daniil Trifonov has been recording for release in Australia next month (September 11, 2015). Described by the Washington Post as “a pianist ahead of his time”, Trifonov says of Rachmaninov, “he is one of my…
Acclaimed conductor David Zinman conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during May this year in two programmes. Zinman is the Music Director of the Tonhalle in Zurich to which he was appointed in 1995. Renowned for his creative programming, he has also appeared as guest conductor with the major orchestras of the world – the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony,…
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor David Robertson has nabbed a Grammy Award for best Orchestral Performance with his recording of John Adams’s City Noir and the Saxophone Concerto as conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It is reportedly the second win in three years for an Adams recording and the seventh for the SLSO….
Scroll down to see all eight images from Opera Australia’s current production of Verdi’s Otello. Read our review of Otello Images by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.
Scholars of J S Bach have studied his music for centuries. Is there anything more to learn? Paul Elie’s book ‘Reinventing Bach’ (Union Books) is reviewed by Ivan Hewitt of The Telegraph. Elie is an American writer, editor and is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Read the book revew…
The “visceral, ethereal quality of his playing” has likened him to Liszt, but it is the music of Rachmaninov which piano wunderkind Daniil Trifonov has been recording for release in Australia next month (September 11, 2015). Described by the Washington Post as “a pianist ahead of his time”, Trifonov says of Rachmaninov, “he is one of my…
Acclaimed conductor David Zinman conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during May this year in two programmes. Zinman is the Music Director of the Tonhalle in Zurich to which he was appointed in 1995. Renowned for his creative programming, he has also appeared as guest conductor with the major orchestras of the world – the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony,…
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html