The University of Sydney’s first MOOC centred on teaching music in the 21st century launches this month and urges music educators to rethink how technology is used to motivate school students to learn and make music. It is the University’s first rollout of seven open online courses, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble presents a program of contemporary brass music conducted by Michael Mulcahy. Included in the line-up are Copland’s euphoric Fanfare for the Common Man, the simple street corner piece Street Song by Michael Tilson Thomas and A Requiem in Our Time by Rautavaara. The programme: COPLAND Fanfare for the Common…
Synaesthesia is a feature of the human nervous system that causes a blending of the senses where one sense can be experienced as another. Colours can be experienced as letters and numbers, hearing music can trigger smells or tastes, touch can stimulate vision. Only 1 in 2000 people experience the phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’….