Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera Australia delivers the 2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks address, and held each year by the New Music Network to stimulate thought in creating and performing music in Australia. This year’s topic was Populism as Art and the Art of Populism.In his address, Terracini applies this statement to the future of opera in contemporary Australia.
OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini believes that quotas on the hiring of non-Australian singers should be lifted. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/lyndon-terracini-blasts-prehistoric-union-opera-quota/story-e6frg8n6-1226310782416
‘Papa’ Haydn earned his nickname for fostering instrumental works – symphonic and chamber. Yet, it’s often forgotten that he wrote as many as 15 operas. Read more from Tom Service.
Beautiful black and white images from the rehearsals of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s current season of Venice Secrets. The season continues at the City Recital Hall. http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/the-australian-brandenburg-orchestra-reveals-secret-venice/6281.html Images taken by Steven Godbee and reproduced with his kind permission.
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is so ‘accessible’, it has suffered the fate of overexposure. Its four heady concerti pass through summer, autumn, winter, and spring, depicting folk life and evocative landscapes in bite-sized chunks. Some of its passages are so instantly recognisable that they have suffered the ignominy of being used as background music in commercials. Enter German-born…
Congratulations to violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller who has won the The Music Trust’s 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship. Kyla and finalists Eliza Shephard (flute), Will Hansen (double bass) and Molly Collier-O’Boyle (viola) competed for the coveted $21,000 prize in a concert final that was filmed in Sydney and Melbourne, and streamed online via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. The 28-year-old Matsuura-Miller is a Tokyo-born,…
The Choir of St James’ King Street is offering readers of SoundsLikeSydney a ticket discount to its May 21st concert, A Venetian Coronation. Conducting this concert is Paul McCreesh, early music expert and founder of the Gabrieli Consort. A Venetian Coronation is a fabulous opportunity to see Paul McCreesh conduct the music for which he is best known…