The family of maestro Arturo Toscanini has placed hundreds of his valuable possessions on the market for auction by Sotheby’s in London on November 28th. The conductor died in New York in 1957.
The items include Toscanini’s Steinway model D piano, some of his batons and documents hand written by Verdi, Wagner, Strauss and Mendelssohn.
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2021 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition is calling for entrants, with the exciting news that the heats, semi-finals and finals concerts will be performed live. Heats are held for eligible entrants around Australia, in New Zealand, and in London. In 2021, heats will only be held in Australia. Entrants have the chance to perform on…
Baritone Morgan Pearse will soon be moving from London, his home of recent years, to Houston, Texas, where he has been offered a position with the Studio Programme of the Houston Grand Opera. The prestigious HGO Opera Studio offers an integrated programme involving study in voice, drama and affiliated areas, opportunities to perform and…
It was 75 years ago, on November 9 in 1940 that Joaquín Rodrigo’s (1901 – 1999) Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra was premiered in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Celebrating the anniversary of this enormously popular concerto, guitarist siblings Slava and Leonard Grigoryan have re-released their CD, Rodrigo Guitar Concertos (ABC Classics 4812231), featuring the three…
Viola player Henry Justo (28), from Queensland, has won the 2023 Freedman Classical Fellowship and accompanying $21, 000 prize.
Applications have opened for artists and arts and cultural organisations to tour their work
across regional NSW as part of Create NSW’s Regional Arts Touring Program.
Vexations 840 is about pushing boundaries. Giving a new enterprise this name may seem like asking for trouble, but the people behind this venture are inviting challenge. One of these is Lyle Chan, music producer and composer who describes Vexations 840 as “a classical music enterprise” that will speak to core classical audiences. Vexations 840…