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The Music World Loses Two Great Conductors
Sad news today that the music world has lost two of its great conductors – Sir Jeffrey Tate and Jiří Bělohlávek. Sir Jeffrey Tate (74), was well-known to Australian audiences as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He was scheduled to conduct them again in October this year. He is reported…
Peter And The Wolf In Hollywood – A Fresh Multi-Media Production
Sergei Prokofiev’s immortal tale of Peter and the Wolf has been given a spectacular revamp and takes shape in the form of a multi-media adventure entitled Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood. Available from November 13, Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood has been created by New York-based production company Giants Are Small and Deutsche Grammophon. It promises to be a…
The movements that make the music
This is an absolutely fascinating animation from the New York Times of the connection between a conductor’s gestures, the responses of the musicians and the sounds that are created. Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic talks it through: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/06/arts/music/the-connection-between-gesture-and-music.html?ref=classicalmusic#
It’s All About The Bassoon
Maurice Ravel’s Boléro features it prominently, as do Donizetti’s Una furtiva lagrima, the overture to The Marriage of Figaro, and more comical music like the grandfather’s theme in Peter and the Wolf, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and R Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. Stravinsky scored it in The Rite of Spring and the Firebird Suite. Now it seems the bassoon is going out of fashion and virtuoso bassoonist…
2013 Paul Lowin Winners Announced
The winners of the prestigious 2013 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced at ceremony in Sydney on Monday night, 28th October. Elliot Gyger won the $15,000 purse in the Song Cycle category for giving voice (2012), a cycle of eight songs for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, based on Australian female poets’ words about early childhood…
APRA/AMCOS 2015 Art Music Award Winners
Last night APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre announced the winners of the 2015 Art Music Awards in a ceremony held at the City Recital Hall in Sydney. The awards recognise the achievement and creative success of composers, performers and practitioners in contemporary art music, jazz and experimental music. The award for the Orchestral Work of the Year…

