Steve Reich on minimalism
Steve Reich is in Sydney! He talks to Matthew Westwood from The Australian:
Steve Reich is in Sydney! He talks to Matthew Westwood from The Australian:
Opera returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre after the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020, with Opera Australia unveiling a four- production, three-month, COVID-safe season for 2021 that includes two debut productions for the company. This quartet of productions is intended to be the first of several for the year. Due to open on 5…
St Mary’s Cathedral Choir is offering readers of SoundsLikeSydney a double pass to their 7 pm Christmas Choral Celebration on Friday 13 December, when St Mary’s Cathedral will resound with exquisite Christmas music performed by the Cathedral Choir and Sinfonia Australis. With choral works by Bach, Handel and Rutter, and a feast of favourite Christmas…
Sydney Youth Orchestras has announced the launch of the Richard Gill Chamber Orchestra which celebrates the legacy of the late Richard Gill, one of the most admired music educators of our time. Richard Gill was the Chief Conductor at SYO from 1977 -1982 and firmly believed that “every child should have the opportunity to learn and…
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…
When nationally renowned viola da gambist Jenny Eriksson formed Australia’s first electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields, she had one pianist in mind: Matt McMahon. Jenny and Matt developed their friendship over several years of performing together at jazz gigs. In 2014 she finally invited him to write for, and appear with, her…
The explosion in the world of video games over the past decades has created a whole new genre of music. The symphonic nature of the music has means that symphony orchestras have embraced this form and performed it to great success. Writer and librettist Gordon Kalton Williams examines the place of this music in the…
Opera returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre after the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020, with Opera Australia unveiling a four- production, three-month, COVID-safe season for 2021 that includes two debut productions for the company. This quartet of productions is intended to be the first of several for the year. Due to open on 5…
St Mary’s Cathedral Choir is offering readers of SoundsLikeSydney a double pass to their 7 pm Christmas Choral Celebration on Friday 13 December, when St Mary’s Cathedral will resound with exquisite Christmas music performed by the Cathedral Choir and Sinfonia Australis. With choral works by Bach, Handel and Rutter, and a feast of favourite Christmas…
Sydney Youth Orchestras has announced the launch of the Richard Gill Chamber Orchestra which celebrates the legacy of the late Richard Gill, one of the most admired music educators of our time. Richard Gill was the Chief Conductor at SYO from 1977 -1982 and firmly believed that “every child should have the opportunity to learn and…
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…
When nationally renowned viola da gambist Jenny Eriksson formed Australia’s first electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields, she had one pianist in mind: Matt McMahon. Jenny and Matt developed their friendship over several years of performing together at jazz gigs. In 2014 she finally invited him to write for, and appear with, her…
The explosion in the world of video games over the past decades has created a whole new genre of music. The symphonic nature of the music has means that symphony orchestras have embraced this form and performed it to great success. Writer and librettist Gordon Kalton Williams examines the place of this music in the…
Opera returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre after the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020, with Opera Australia unveiling a four- production, three-month, COVID-safe season for 2021 that includes two debut productions for the company. This quartet of productions is intended to be the first of several for the year. Due to open on 5…
St Mary’s Cathedral Choir is offering readers of SoundsLikeSydney a double pass to their 7 pm Christmas Choral Celebration on Friday 13 December, when St Mary’s Cathedral will resound with exquisite Christmas music performed by the Cathedral Choir and Sinfonia Australis. With choral works by Bach, Handel and Rutter, and a feast of favourite Christmas…
Sydney Youth Orchestras has announced the launch of the Richard Gill Chamber Orchestra which celebrates the legacy of the late Richard Gill, one of the most admired music educators of our time. Richard Gill was the Chief Conductor at SYO from 1977 -1982 and firmly believed that “every child should have the opportunity to learn and…
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…
When nationally renowned viola da gambist Jenny Eriksson formed Australia’s first electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields, she had one pianist in mind: Matt McMahon. Jenny and Matt developed their friendship over several years of performing together at jazz gigs. In 2014 she finally invited him to write for, and appear with, her…
The explosion in the world of video games over the past decades has created a whole new genre of music. The symphonic nature of the music has means that symphony orchestras have embraced this form and performed it to great success. Writer and librettist Gordon Kalton Williams examines the place of this music in the…