The future of arts leadership in Australia
What does it take to lead a successful performing arts organisation – and is Australia grooming the next generation of leaders?
Matthew Westwood reports in today’s The Australian.
What does it take to lead a successful performing arts organisation – and is Australia grooming the next generation of leaders?
Matthew Westwood reports in today’s The Australian.
Participants in the 2024 Chamber Music 18-26 age group event at Sydney Eisteddfod will be considered for this exciting opportunity.
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…
To mark the tenth death anniversary of the legendary dramatic coloratura soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, Decca Eloquence has released an album Joan Sutherland My Favourites, comprising Dame Joan’s favourite moments in opera and song accompanied by liner notes she wrote herself, including her recipe for Christmas pudding. The selections range from Mozart, through the great…
Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba ensemble, broadcasts on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall (MDCH) in a program that draws on its second CD, FIKA (pron. ‘fee-ka’) of features Scandinavian folk music and jazz along with original music inspired by the Far North.
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html
Is the term ‘contemporary classical music’ a contradiction in terms? Tom Service of The Guardian dispels some myths: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/26/five-myths-contemporary-classical-music?intcmp=239