Cuts to school music programmes in Queensland – Simone Young comments
Simone Young is in Brisbane to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra. She comments on the Queensland state government’s slashing of music education in schools:
Simone Young is in Brisbane to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra. She comments on the Queensland state government’s slashing of music education in schools:
Gramophone magazine previews Lang Lang’s new CD of the piano works of Liszt. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/chart/review/liszt-my-piano-hero
“New Wine in an Old Bottle” is a recent CD release on the Move label, featuring new compositions for the natural horn, written by Thomas McConochie and performed by Ma
rk Papworth and Amanda Millar
Heldentenor Simon O’Neill has been announced Best Classical Artist for 2019, at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards in Auckland, following his debut album for Decca, Distant Beloved, with pianist Terence Dennis. Australian audiences will be familiar with O’Neill after his performances as Otello and as Sergei (in Lady Macbeth of Mtensk) for Opera Australia….
How did we miss this one? Sumi Jo speaks to Julieanne Strachan of the Sydney Morning Herald during her recent trip to Australia. Better late than never: Click here to read.
QUIZ: BOOKS INTO MUSIC Test your passion for books, opera, or both! Name these literary pieces and their author and then the operas on which they are based and the composers who wrote them. Good luck! In this novella from 1937, two homeless ranch workers George Milton and Lennie Small, traverse California looking for work…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble (AHE) has released it debut recording on ABC Classics, The Haydn Album, performing three major works by the composer from whom they have taken their name, the eighteenth-century composer Joseph Haydn. An ensemble of gifted musicians with a wealth of national and international experience, the AHE with Artistic Direction by Skye…