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This Week From The Met
The Metropolitan Opera has continued to lift spirits keeping its audiences engaged and entertained with its free daily encore presentations, from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website. Each performance is available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT (US time) until 6:30…
Sydney Eisteddfod Crowd Favourites Competition
Sydney Eisteddfod announces a brand new venture, the Crowd Favourites Competition! Dancers, singers, musicians and actors between the ages of 10 & 35, anywhere and everywhere, are invited to to participate by recording their act for the chance of winning from a prize pool of over $6,000! The voting process will be largely up to…
Support Act Offers COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants
The COVID-19 pandemic has created intense financial hardship for artists, crew and music workers from all genres. Many were the first to lose their jobs and income and this sector could well be the last to recover. Support Act is a charity providing services to musicians, music workers and crew including Crisis Relief grants, mental…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW Awards Willgoss Composition Prizes
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has awarded its 2020 Willgoss Ensemble Composition prize jointly to Elizabeth Younan and Michael Grebla. The prize is aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original, short work for ensembles, in support of a thriving instrumental and choral program at UNSW Sydney. The winners each receive $2500 and…
Lang Lang Releases Goldberg Variations Double On Deutsche Grammophon
Pianist Lang Lang in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon will release a new recording of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations on 4 September 2020. The culmination of a 20-year journey and his most personal project yet, the album features a studio recording and a live performance from the legendary Thomaskirche in Leipzig. For Lang Lang, recording…
Max Richter’s New Release On Decca Inspired By Human Rights
Composer Max Richter announces the release of VOICES, a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The first single from this important new work, All Human Beings is already available on Decca Records, accompanied by a new music video. VOICES was released on 31 July, 2020. ‘VOICES’, described as a…
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Concert Review: Sydney Sings Brahms – A German Requiem/ Sydney University Graduate Choir and Guest Choir
Sydney Sings Brahms- A German Requiem Sydney University Graduate Choir and Guest Choir/ Christopher Bowen OAM -conductor Sydney Town Hall 10 November 2019 Written by Victoria Watson Sydney University Graduate Choir was formed in the 1950s and has evolved in the decades since into a large ambitious ensemble of over one hundred voices. Christopher Bowen…
Opera Review: Il Viaggio A Reims/ Opera Australia
Il Viaggio a Reims Opera Australia Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, October 24th, 2019 Written by Victoria Watson The father of 19th century bel canto Gioachino Rossini wrote Il Viaggio a Reims specifically to coincide with and celebrate the 1825 coronation of the previously exiled King Charles X at Reims in rural France. The libretto…