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The Sounds Of Their Sickness
Did the ailments of composers influence the music they wrote?! Did Tavener’s life-threatening inherited disease Marfan’s Syndrome initiate the otherworldly sound of his music? Did Beethoven’s deafness cause him to focus on his physiological rhythms? Click here to read Tom Service’s feature in The Guardian.
La Boheme Image Gallery
Opera Australia’s 2015 presentation of Puccini’s La Boheme is in full swing with Maija Kovalevska as Mimì and Diego Torre as Rodolfo. The Gale Edwards production is set in 1930’s Berlin. Scroll down to see all 7 images. Images courtesy Opera Australia, by Branco Gaica.
Sydney Chamber Choir – Life Begins at 40 With 2015 Season
The Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates 40 years of music making with the launch of its 2015 programme. Musical Director Paul Stanhope observes “Despite the number of candles on our cake, we are every bit as adventurous as when we were young upstarts!” adding “The choir continues to renew itself through a strong intake of fresh talent,…
Sydney festival 2015 Line-Up Announced
Put the dates in your diary! The 2015 Sydney Festival will run from January 8 – 16, and will include theatre and dance, circus and cabaret, family events, opera and classical concerts, free gigs, the festival village and events around Sydney. Highlights for fans of classical music include Czech violinists Iva Bittová and Hana Kotková performing…
“Why I’m Not Going To The Opera”
“The announcement of Sydney’s 2015 main stage program reveals 11 shows more limited in repertoire, more traditional in style and more narrow in their appeal than I have seen for years. ” Harriet Cunningham explains why she’s not going to the opera in 2015.
Roland Peelman To Step Down From The Song Company
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
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Concert Review: Six Times Three/ Sydney Chamber Choir
Six Times Three Sydney Chamber Choir Great Hall Sydney University September 6, 2015 In its final concert for 2015, celebrating its 40th year, the Sydney Chamber Choir welcomed its newly appointed Music Director Richard Gill OAM, as conductor, in a (mostly) a capella, numerologically themed program of music by six Antipodean composers – three men…
CD Review: Brandenburg celebrates/Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Commemorating twenty-five years of performance since its inception in January 1990, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has released Brandenburg Celebrates a new studio recording of Baroque exemplars which showcases the talents of the ensemble as well as the more challenging task of snapping a cross-section of its repertoire over this time. Artistic Director and Co-Founder…