Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the youngest knight ever created? And what did the adult knights think of the appointment?!
Today’s The Australian reports on Vatican documents dating back to 1770 in which Pope Clement XIV awarded Mozart the Chivalric Order of the Golden Spur. More at…
ABC Classics celebrates the 60th birthday of pre-eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin with The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection, a 10 CD boxed set, also available as a digital collection, bringing together her iconic works with pieces recorded especially for this collection. Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan and successful composers working today, with a prolific…
More on the dire situation at the ANU School of Music: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/anu-music-head-on-indefinte-leave-as-tension-builds-20120510-1yemu.html
Soprano Patricia Rozario is in Brisbane this week to sing the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks in a festival of Indian music. Born in Mumbai, she has been the muse and foremost interpreter of the vocal music of John Tavener and Arvo Part. Click to read more.
Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre has released a brand new album on Decca Classics with world-renowned VOCES8, his ‘dream vocal group’ in a debut collaboration.
The Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program has made available its 2019 production of Otto Nicolai‘s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, recorded by 4MBS Classic FM. Directed by Heather Fairbairn and conducted by Ward Stare with Ensemble Q, the cast includes Joel Amosa as Sir John Falstaff, Morgan England-Jones as Frau Fluth, Anastasia Bickel as Frau…
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…