The Met’s first Ring Cycle is completed
The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:
The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The NY Times has its say:
Having reported recently that an increasing number of pianos (in the US at least) are being dumped ( http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/free-to-a-good-home-when-pianos-pass-their-use-by-date/8789.html), and that Australia is suffering a lack of piano tuners and training facilities for them, (http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/australia-out-of-tuners/9084.html) research has proven that working and training as a piano tuner produces specific adaptations in brain function that relate to the…
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
For centuries, opera has been an European art form – its tales and music emerging from the literature, the librettists and the composers of the European continent. With the discovery of the New World, the art form reached across the Atlantic. It was only in 1955 that Marian Anderson (b1897) became the first African-American to…
After Lindy Hume’s impassioned stance last week on maintaining the integrity and relevance of opera in the 21st century, over 400 years after it emerged, the directors of the UK’s seven major opera houses give their views on why opera is still important and how they would introduce neophytes to the art form.
Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey has delivered the 2012 Peggy-Glanville Hicks address, calling for more funding for Australian music, Australian musicians and better music education in the school system. The Australian Music Centre’s Resonate magazine reports: Click here to read
More reasons to celebrate Rossini’s birth anniversary: Petite Messe Solennelle conducted by Riccardo Chailly Joyce DiDonato performing “Tanti affetti”, from Donna del Lago. William Tell Overture Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.
Having reported recently that an increasing number of pianos (in the US at least) are being dumped ( http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/free-to-a-good-home-when-pianos-pass-their-use-by-date/8789.html), and that Australia is suffering a lack of piano tuners and training facilities for them, (http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/australia-out-of-tuners/9084.html) research has proven that working and training as a piano tuner produces specific adaptations in brain function that relate to the…
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
For centuries, opera has been an European art form – its tales and music emerging from the literature, the librettists and the composers of the European continent. With the discovery of the New World, the art form reached across the Atlantic. It was only in 1955 that Marian Anderson (b1897) became the first African-American to…
After Lindy Hume’s impassioned stance last week on maintaining the integrity and relevance of opera in the 21st century, over 400 years after it emerged, the directors of the UK’s seven major opera houses give their views on why opera is still important and how they would introduce neophytes to the art form.
Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey has delivered the 2012 Peggy-Glanville Hicks address, calling for more funding for Australian music, Australian musicians and better music education in the school system. The Australian Music Centre’s Resonate magazine reports: Click here to read
More reasons to celebrate Rossini’s birth anniversary: Petite Messe Solennelle conducted by Riccardo Chailly Joyce DiDonato performing “Tanti affetti”, from Donna del Lago. William Tell Overture Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.
Having reported recently that an increasing number of pianos (in the US at least) are being dumped ( http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/free-to-a-good-home-when-pianos-pass-their-use-by-date/8789.html), and that Australia is suffering a lack of piano tuners and training facilities for them, (http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/australia-out-of-tuners/9084.html) research has proven that working and training as a piano tuner produces specific adaptations in brain function that relate to the…
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
For centuries, opera has been an European art form – its tales and music emerging from the literature, the librettists and the composers of the European continent. With the discovery of the New World, the art form reached across the Atlantic. It was only in 1955 that Marian Anderson (b1897) became the first African-American to…
After Lindy Hume’s impassioned stance last week on maintaining the integrity and relevance of opera in the 21st century, over 400 years after it emerged, the directors of the UK’s seven major opera houses give their views on why opera is still important and how they would introduce neophytes to the art form.
Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey has delivered the 2012 Peggy-Glanville Hicks address, calling for more funding for Australian music, Australian musicians and better music education in the school system. The Australian Music Centre’s Resonate magazine reports: Click here to read
More reasons to celebrate Rossini’s birth anniversary: Petite Messe Solennelle conducted by Riccardo Chailly Joyce DiDonato performing “Tanti affetti”, from Donna del Lago. William Tell Overture Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.