6 things I learnt at Wagner’s Ring Cycle
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT “It’s like going on a flight!” the cloakroom attendant tells me as I hand over the Target Collection coat I wish […]
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Live Review: MSO Sibelius and Shostakovich
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Works by Sibelius, Munro, Shostakovich Hamer Hall, 17 November Like any self-confessed Russian music nerd, concert programs […]
Opera star Pumeza Matshikiza visits Australia
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Pumeza Matshikiza didn’t have the luxury of an early music education. Her childhood spent in South Africa’s Eastern Cape during the final years […]
Live Review: Through Nature to Eternity
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Through Nature to Eternity Tinalley String Quartet with guest artist Lior Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, 4 May ‘All […]
5 Indigenous Australian musicians inspiring change
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Australia will acknowledge its mistreatment of the Indigenous peoples as part of the 2016 National Reconciliation Week between 27 May and […]
8 Crazy Reasons to Admire Erik Satie
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT If I made a list of my favourite composers based on their music, Erik Satie would probably be in the top […]
10 classical composers influenced by jazz
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT “Jazz truly rules the world.” This was the opening line of the first French review of recorded jazz music, published in […]