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Sumi Jo Review
Here it is: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/virtuosity-comes-as-excellence-and-parody-20111202-1ob0l.html Were you there? Tell us what you thought!
In Search of Beethoven
This is the link to the SMH and SkyArts presentation of the 2009 production “In Search of Beethoven”. It features, amongst others, Emmanuel Ax, Roger Norrington and Riccardo Chailly. http://www.smh.com.au/tv/show/in-search-of-beethoven/in-search-of-beethoven-20111202-1oaij.html
When the goat’s bell rang for ‘Sappho’
It was July 2009 in Bali’s hill town of Ubud, tucked in by the Ayung river gorge. The wild clanging of a goat’s bell from the Greek island of Mykonos shattered the tranquility of tropical bird calls and the cascading river. Jennifer Condon was celebrating. The emerging conductor was achieved a nine year ambition to…
Music @ St James’ in 2012
There was much anticipation and comraderie last weekend, when the Friends of Music at St James’ Church in King Street, held a soiree to lauch the 2012 subscription series presented by the Choir of St James’. The series of 6 concerts will feature the Choir and Orchestra of St James with soloists, directed by Warren Trevelyan-Jones. Fans of Baroque music will be delighted as…
Words then music.
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
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serious singing from teddy tahu rhodes
“The poem has not been completed until set to music” – Goethe. If Art Song needs to be re-invented to survive and evolve, the new CD “Serious Songs” from bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (ABC Classics 476-4383) points in the right direction. The CD takes its title from Brahms’ Four Serious Songs,originally composed for bass and piano,…
Arrebato fuses flameno, jazz and the world in their second CD “Absolucion”
The style is possibly as difficult to define as the English meaning of their name – “Arrebato”, variously translated as “fury”, “something that rises rapidly” or “a wave of emotion”. It’s fair to say that any and all of these describe the music of this ensemble. Arrebato release their second CD “Absolucion” in June 2011….