Your own copy of “What’s in a Name”
If you would like to enter the draw to win your own copy of this CD (see Review), email:
[email protected] by 5 pm this Friday 4th November 2011, with the word ‘Nickname’ in the subject heading.
Good luck!
If you would like to enter the draw to win your own copy of this CD (see Review), email:
[email protected] by 5 pm this Friday 4th November 2011, with the word ‘Nickname’ in the subject heading.
Good luck!
Víkingur Ólafsson, celebrated for his visionary interpretations of J.S. Bach, and one of the greatest pianists and musical minds of today, now takes on Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations.
The orchestra pit of the Opera Theatre in the Sydney Opera House wasn’t big enough to accommodate the 86 orchestral musicians required for Opera Australia’s present production of Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”. Answer: take them off-site and link them to the theatre with video and acoustic technology. Matthew Westwood of The Australian has the full story: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/pits-not-up-to-it-so-piped-musics-the-go/story-fn9d2mxu-1226409545488
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