Philip Glass interview
Composer Philip Glass is interviewed this week by The Guardian’s Laura Barnett. He talks about fame, inspiration and people he would like to work with.
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Composer Philip Glass is interviewed this week by The Guardian’s Laura Barnett. He talks about fame, inspiration and people he would like to work with.
Click here to read.
Melbourne based ensemble The Flinders Quartet is performing in Sydney on Wednesday May 14th at the Utzon Room. Readers of SoundsLikeSydney have an unmissable chance to win two double passes to the concert which features the music of Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak. Simply answer both these questions and the first two correct entries will…
Omega ensemble has announced five talented emerging composers who have been selected to
be part of their CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program in 2022.
Having collaborated on the recent production of The Threepenny Opera, conductor and music educator Richard Gill and performer Eddie Perfect have struck another chord in the field of music education: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/odd-couple-stand-for-classical-ideals-20111015-1lq64.html Checkout also this brilliant presentation by Richard Gill for TEDx 2011 on “The Value of Music Education”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRus3NVbwE
The New York Times reports that a new website, The Opera Platform, will begin free live streaming of opera from 15 of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses this weekend. The opera houses include the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Berlin Komische Oper and those in Lyon, Turin and Madrid. This three-way collaboration between Opera Europa, which represents…
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with an unusual recording for Deutsche Grammophon, released earlier this month. The three stars have combined with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which celebrates its 20th year this year, to record Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, op.92 with the Triple Concerto for piano, violin…