Sydney’s newest arts complex

  From young beginners to composers, adult learners and hobbyists, Gramophone Magazine has a selection of some of the best classical music apps for your Apple or Android device. Visit: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/the-best-classical-music-apps?utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=GRAM%20ENews%20Bulletin%20131021%20(02.12.2013)&utm_content=article3_headline  

With the demise of the vinyl record, the repository of art work – both good and bad – created for record covers was also lost. These artworks chronicled the styles of the times and showed some of the artists in a rare light. Gramophone presents 15 of the less successful covers from its collection alongside three…

Oh the joy of a serendipity….of discovering a lost score long after its composer is no more. This is the story of  Igor Stravinsky’s 1908 piece, Pogrebal’naya Pesnya (Funeral Song) written in memory of his teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, shortly after Rimsky’s death in June  that year. The 12-minute work was performed only once, in a Russian symphony…

Academics from New York’s Manhattan School of Music comment on the re-structure at the ANU School of Music in Canberra: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/music-schools-sour-note-20120527-1zcp1.html