EVENTS // Melbourne Symphony Orchestra plays Brahms’ Violin Concerto and more
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA What do a bugle, a bell tower, and a child prodigy violinist have in common? Find out as the Melbourne […]
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Nodoka Okisawa is about to make her Australian debut — and she’ll conduct new Australian music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Debussy’s Nocturnes concerts mark two exciting Australian firsts: not only will the program feature a […]
Felix Riebl: “Spinifex Gum is the most special project I’ve ever worked on”
BY LILY BRYANT When you first press “play” on Spinifex Gum’s title track, you’re not sure what you’re hearing. It sounds like a crash cymbal, […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]
Conversations with Robin Wilson | Teaching Christian Li
BY JO ST LEON, SERIES CURATOR Christian Li, one of Robin Wilson’s many outstanding students, has become the youngest violinist ever to record Vivaldi’s Four […]
Everything you need to know about this rarely performed work by John Adams
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR John Adams broke through a severe period of writer’s block with Harmonielehre, sharing in his memoir that his 1985 composition […]
John Adams’ music is a “contribution to humanity that helps us understand ourselves”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) This month, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform John Adams’ dynamic and breathtaking Harmonielehre under the baton of Dutch-Maltese […]
EVENTS // John Adams’ colourful masterpiece Harmonielehre
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA John Adams’ colourful masterpiece Harmonielehre may not be a symphony by name, but it certainly is a symphony by nature. Comprised of […]
Phillip Sametz will teach you how to write about music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Phillip Sametz, communication is the Swiss Army Knife of industry skills. The ability to put music into words can serve […]
My arts career during COVID-19: Sophie Rowell, concertmaster
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the entire nature of our industry has shifted — seemingly overnight — with artists forced to […]