Reviews of Opera Australia’s Ring adventure in Melbourne with the performance of the first in the cycle Das Rheingold:
Murray Black reviews Vladimir Ashkenazy’s tenure in The Australian:
A Polish pianist recreates the piano designed by Leonardo da Vinci:
Mariss Jansons – ‘the greatest conductor on earth’:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sound-and-style-20131114-2xhk2.html
Ensemble Offspring has an exciting venture. It is a new annual recording series, Offspring Bites, celebrating the creation of new art music in Australia today, featuring an audio release alongside newly commissioned video art created by video artists Samuel James and Oliver Miller paired with the recordings. It is a start towards realising what Ensemble Offspring…
Governments take note! Parents take heart! Those hours of music practice, of driving children to music lessons, rehearsals and concerts – not to mention the cost – are well worth the effort! The study, undertaken by the University of Sydney and the Australia Council for the Arts and published in the Journal of Educational Psychology shows…
Gramophone magazine previews Lang Lang’s new CD of the piano works of Liszt. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/chart/review/liszt-my-piano-hero
Soprano Patricia Rozario is in Brisbane this week to sing the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks in a festival of Indian music. Born in Mumbai, she has been the muse and foremost interpreter of the vocal music of John Tavener and Arvo Part. Click to read more.
The McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod is calling for entries to the 2014 competition. The 92-page syllabus includes almost four hundred classical and contemporary events for aspiring singers, dancers, musicians, composers, choirs, bands and orchestras. The program caters for all age groups and styles. Once again, the $57,000 Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria and the $36,000 Sydney…
