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Accolades for Carolyn Watson

  Sydney conductor Carolyn Watson’s star continue to rise as she has headed off to Europe for the northern summer. She sent  Sounds Like Sydney a ‘postcard’ from Berlin. “I’m writing this from Berlin where I’ve just arrived. Very fortunately, I was named as the recipient of Opera Foundation Australia’s 2012 Berlin New Music Opera Award,…
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More news….

There are changes  afoot in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, aimed at improving the acoustic. More at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/opinion/acoustic-alterations-at-the-opera-house-must-retain-the-architectural-harmony-of-the-hall/story-fn9n9z9n-1226420429346     What’s the obsession with expecting musicians to have the stamina of an athlete, the technique of the possessed and the looks of a deity? http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/making-beautiful-music/story-fn9n8gph-1226416992126     Review the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s current touring…
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Hot off the press….

How will we access music over the next decade? http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mp3s/music-revolution-20120705-21jmo.html     A new organ in unveiled in Sydney: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/traveller-over-seas-and-years-20120707-21nqz.html     A review of the weekend’s Sydney Symphony concert conducted by conductor designate David Robertson: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/shifting-layers-have-rewards-20120705-21jt9.html
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Highlights from the Olympics Proms include tenor Stuart Skelton singing’Grimes’

    London is the only city in the world which can offer its visitors the chance to simultaneously attend two of the world’s largest festivals that pair sport and music – the Olympics and the BBC Proms. The Proms opens on July 13th and runs till September 8th; the Olympic Games open on July 27th and…
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More about Melba’s funding cut

“The Melba Foundation was established to promote Australia’s finest classical musicians and artists in the national and international music world”  says the opening statement on the home page of Melba Recordings. It continues: “The appointed role of the foundation is to help the best contemporary Australian musicians…. develop a profile and continue to build musical…
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Technology transports the sound

The orchestra pit of the Opera Theatre in the Sydney Opera House wasn’t big enough to accommodate the 86 orchestral musicians required for Opera Australia’s present production of Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”. Answer: take them off-site and link them to the theatre with video and acoustic technology. Matthew Westwood of The Australian has the full story: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/pits-not-up-to-it-so-piped-musics-the-go/story-fn9d2mxu-1226409545488
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Latest reviews

‘ReImaginings’ – Joe Chindamo and Zoe Black

Costello and Krall, Barenboim and du Pre, Sutherland and Bonyge, Laine and Dankworth – all partners on stage and in life, sharing a performing life and a musical genre. Joe Chindamo and Zoe Black share all this as well, except for the fact that they hail from different music backgrounds. Whilst Black is classically trained,…

Haefliger/Zinman/SSO reviewed

Murray Black reviews the Sydney Symphony’s concert with pianist Andreas Haefliger, conducted by David Zinman: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/nothing-finer-than-this-falstaff-in-full-flight/story-e6frg8n6-1226355198346