Regardless of your taste in music, there are no doubt numerous times when that earworm burrows deeper and deeper into your cortex.
American singers and producer Pharell Williams’ song Happy has enjoyed astronomical worldwide success. In this feature, experts in composition, a DJ, an academic and BBC 1’s head of music look at what makes a tune so hard to forget – and therefore, so commercially successful.
Grigory Sokolov has a new album Beethoven Brahms, out now on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Three years after his last recording, Sokolov returns with a 31-track double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Included on the double album are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 and the Bagatelles opus 119 along with Brahms’…
Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea has been announced as the winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition recently concluded in Warsaw. The 21-year old student of Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatoire was in a field of ten finalists drawn from 450 applicants adjudicated by Dmitri Alexeev, Martha Argerich, Philippe Entremont, Nelson Goerner, Garrick Ohlsson and chaired…
If you would like to be in the running to win one of two double passes to the cabaret style launch of the CD Lady Sings the Viol, created in style by director Christine Douglas on August 24th at The Independent Theatre in North Sydney – or – Win one of 4 CD giveaways of…
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…
A fascinating feature on tuning – past, present and future – from Philip Clark of Gramophone magazine. He claims “The argument goes that equal temperament is becoming increasingly streamlined and corporate, and man’s capacity to hear and feel subtle inflections of tuning is in slow retreat.” http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/tuning
“The tall, slender Lindstrom wielded the icy glamour of a 30’s film star, working the trains and veils of her elaborate costumes with the panache of a runway model.” Turandot, New York Post Sydney audiences are in for a very special experience when Opera Australia presents Graeme Murphy’s production of Puccini’s Turandot in the forthcoming…