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A long wait for this weill
A New York collector has discovered music by Kurt Weill, lost for nearly 70 years. Rather than being a boon, it became a millstone around his neck. Click here to read
Alina Ibragimova interview
Tom Service of The Guardian interviews brilliant 27 year old violinist Alina Ibragimova, describing her “trademark wildly imaginative playing, with its combination of unleashed energy and historical awareness”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/18/alina-ibragimova-violinist-rawness-energy
Clive Barda photo retrospective
Photographer Clive Barda’s name appears below many of the most famous musical images in recent history. In his 4o year career as a photographer of performers, he has built up a formidable repository of photographs dating back to Jacqueline Du Pre in in 1960s. Now 100 of his prints from Leonard Bernstein in the past,…
Opera on the internet
The latest showcase for opera has moved from the high definition images of the cinema to live streaming off the internet. the first opera to be streamed was a performance of Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio from Vienna’s Kammeroper, on Sunday 21st October, and included Australian baritone Ben Connor. More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/21/vienna-platform-launches-_0_n_1997169.html?utm_hp_ref=arts
‘Give me excess of it’ – the memoirs of Richard Gill
Revered conductor and music educator Richard Gill’s memoirs Give me Excess of it will be released on October 23rd, MacMillan Australia. He talks to Matthew Westwood about the book: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/musical-memoir-to-settle-old-scores/story-fn9d2mxu-1226498845442 You can also attend a literary lunch to hear Richard Gill talk about the book at The Four Season Hotel in the city: Date: Monday 29 October 2012…
A swell ‘Carmen’ on the harbour in 2013
As if creating a ballroom on the harbour wasn’t challenging enough, Opera Australia will create a village in Seville on the water when it presents its second production of Hand Opera on the Harbour which in 2013 will be Bizet’s Carmen. Stage productions of Carmen in the past, have included a donkey and a horse. There…
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Synaesthesia: reviewing a journey into the unknown
Descending the spiral staircases into the darkened subterranean caverns of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), was like entering the recesses of the subconscious. The museum was about to host the inaugural coming together of a collision of sensory experiences in the form of Synaesthesia: Music of Colour and Mind, a festival that…
Friar Alessandro, The Voice from Assisi: review
Friar Alessandro, The Voice From Assisi (Decca) is a collection of devotional songs recorded by Friar Alessandro, of the friary of St Francis in Assisi, in Italy’s Umbria district. Many of the songs relate to the Franciscan hagiography. Born Alessandro Brustenghi, in the village of Castiglione della Valle, the 34 year old friar studied composition…