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2013 ARIA Fine Arts Winners Announced
Three winners of the ARIA Fine Arts Awards were announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales this morning. Congratulations to Sally Whitwell for Best Classical Album All Imperfect Things, The Idea of North for Best Jazz Album Smile and Joseph Tawadros for Best World Music Album Chameleons of the White Shadow. Read our review…
ARIA Announces 2013 Fine Arts and Artisan Awards Nominees
Nominees for the 2013 Fine Arts and Artisan ARIA Awards have been announced. The categories include Best Classical Album, Best Jazz Album, Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Best World Music Album, Producer Of The Year, Engineer Of the Year, and Best Cover Art. Nominees for best Classical Album are Amy Dickson, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Catch Me If You…
‘The Science of Opera’ from Stephen Fry
Polymath and opera buff Stephen Fry might have some answers to the physiology behind the way audiences respond to opera: http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/stephen-fry-hosts-the-science-of-opera.html
If Music Be The Food of Success…..Play On.
With the recent news that the 2013 Nobel prize winner for medicine Thomas Sudhof drew on his classical music training for inspiration, this feature in the New York Times describes how music promotes creative thinking and success in other aspects of like. “Music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that…
Hoang Pham named 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer Of The Year
Melbourne based pianist Hoang Pham, 28, took out the award for the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, opus 23 at last night’s Grand Final held at the Melbourne Town Hall. He performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman. He wins…
Nobel Prize Winner Chooses Mozart As His Dinner Companion.
Stanford neuroscientist Thomas Südhof is one of three winners of the 2013 Nobel prize for medicine. Born in Germany, he was interviewed in the medical journal, The Lancet in 2010 when he said that his first choice of dinner companion would be Mozart. A bassoon player as well, he has applied his learning in music to his career in…
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Gondwana Choirs National Choral School.
Gondwana Choirs National Choral School Concerts The Concourse, Chatswood, Saturday Janury 18th,3 pm Let the politicians argue about the school curriculum. Send your children to Gondwana Choirs National Choral School – they will learn a great deal and have googols of fun. The Saturday concerts were the culmination of two weeks of workshops…
Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Sydney Festival
Dido and Aeneas, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Vocal Consort Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sydney Festival, Lyric theatre, Pyrmont, Sydney; January 16th, 2014. The production of Dido and Aeneas by Sasha Waltz and Guests, presented by the Sydney Festival is an abstraction of the opera by Purcell. Movement and singing are equal partners in…