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The Art of Music makes art for music
Singer Jenny Morris has created a project called Art of Music in which 10 paintings inspired by iconic Australian songs will be auctioned to raise funds for the Golden Stave Music Therapy Centre at the University of Western Sydney’s Kingswood campus. The auction is to be held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on…
The London Symphony Orchestra performs in Trafalgar Square
The pigeons of Trafalgar Square rightly had their feather ruffled when they had to make way for the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra. The musicians, who were looking very cool gave their first open air concert in Trafalgar Square, with their conductor Valery Gergiev. Here’s the link to the gallery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2012/may/15/lso-trafalgar-square-concert#/?picture=390137981&index=2
Australia Council update
Arts Minister Simon Crean has made two new appointments to the Australia Council for the Arts as a review calls for its reform: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/how-to-finance-a-cultural-utopia/story-e6frg8n6-1226362737526 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/appointments-follow-a-review-of-the-australia-council/story-e6frg8n6-1226362844473
The ANU School of Music contoversy continues
The conroversy continues over Professor Adrian Walter’s appointment to the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts: http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=37ddbd1435657310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News
Hot off the press….
More background on David Robertson, who will take over as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony from 2014: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/boulez-protege-has-a-postromantic-perspective-20120515-1yp2t.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/buried-treasures-to-be-unearthed-after-orchestra-passes-the-baton-20120515-1yp2u.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/new-sso-chief-strikes-right-notes/story-e6frg8n6-1226356619844
David Robertson to lead the Sydney Symphony from 2014
There is tremendous excitement at the announcement by the Sydney Symphony that American conductor David Robertson will be its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director from 2014 succeeding the much loved Vladimir Ashkenazy. David Robertson has a string of impressive orchestral appointments to his name having been Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony since 2005…
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Steve Reich reviews
Peter McCallum reviews the Steve Reich Celebration for the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/rhythms-unfold-with-a-timeless-grandeur-20120430-1xv0e.html …and from Murray Black at The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/three-ages-of-reich-revisited-with-brio/story-fn9d2mxu-1226343085722
Poèmes – Renee Fleming
Renee Fleming’s new CD Poèmes celebrates Gallic vocal music from Ravel’s Orientalist infused Shéhérazade, written at the turn of the last century and Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, to Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou and a world premiere recording of Le Temps l’horloge by living composer Henri Dutilleux. The celebrated singer comments: ” For the sheer sensual joy of singing, no language gives…