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Save The Date And Start Planning Your wardrobe! Ausmusic T-Shirt Day 2020
Support Act announces Ausmusic T-Shirt Day 2020! Save the date, Friday, 20 November! Ausmusic T-Shirt Da is a nation-wide celebration of Australian music that will help to raise desperately needed funds to meet the ever growing demand on Support Act’s services during the COVID pandemic. Requests for Crisis Relief have increased by 883% since the…
Joan Sutherland My Favourites Released on Decca Eloquence
To mark the tenth death anniversary of the legendary dramatic coloratura soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, Decca Eloquence has released an album Joan Sutherland My Favourites, comprising Dame Joan’s favourite moments in opera and song accompanied by liner notes she wrote herself, including her recipe for Christmas pudding. The selections range from Mozart, through the great…
Sydney Youth Orchestras’ Fractured Orchestra Project Offers A Way Through
The Fractured Orchestra Project is a collaborative composition by members of the 550-strong Sydney Youth Orchestras, and the end result is now available online. The Fractured Orchestra is a multi-faceted creative project commissioned by the Sydney Youth Orchestras. Over 3 months in winter 2020 during the height of COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney, Australia, the musicians…
National Art School Joins Melbourne Digital Concert Hall For Sydney Series
The National Art School is to join Melbourne Digital Concert Hall as a presenting partner for a series of spring concerts in the school’s Cell Block Theatre, bringing live performance to music lovers at home, wherever they are and enabling Sydney musicians to perform on this global network, despite the lockdowns. From 24 September to…
‘Alchemy’ Celebrates The Beauty Of Two Guitars
Guitarists Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi are two of the hottest young performers in Sydney’s classical guitar scene. Today their debut album Alchemy is released on and digital on the ABC Classic label Alchemy, takes us on a journey through the ages and around the world, with classics by Debussy, Rameau, Piazzolla, Albéniz, Falla and…
New Book Explores The Anatomy And Acoustic Of The Violin
Author John E. McLennan, Ph.D., has released an new book dedicated to the ‘anatomy ‘of the violin. The Sound Post in the Violin is the result of 30 years’ research into the functions of the sound post and its history. The incomparable and distinctive sound of the violin has captivated music enthusiasts for five hundred…
Latest reviews
Album review: Where Song Began/ Bowerbird Collective
First, there was birdsong. Then, as humans began to generate music, birdsong became a source of thematic material from as early as Janequin’s four-part chanson Le chant des oiseaux (c1559). As music evolved, composers described birds in music and replicated their sounds; birds have been an inspiration in madrigals and folk songs and in the…
Concert Review: Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas/ Bach Akademie Australia
Comfort and Joy – Cantatas for Christmas Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney 29 November 2019 First there was Comfort – the cantata Süßer Trost BWV 151, by J S Bach, followed by his Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Then the heavens opened in an outpouring of Joy with…