How to restore an organ (with more than 3,300 pipes)
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE, OPINIONS EDITOR For three years, a cathedral organ has been resting, waiting, in silence. Its musician David Heah has relied on […]
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Some lessons my (musical) mother taught me
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE, OPINIONS EDITOR Reflecting on my upbringing has made me realise that certain expectations, conventions, and also general music nerdiness, have been […]
Actually, there are THOUSANDS of female composers
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE, COMPOSER So you think there are no female composers? Actually, there are thousands of female composers. More than 6000, in fact, across 70 countries. […]
UKARIA 24: The whole experience
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE I am so very happy to call Adelaide my home, and places like UKARIA existing makes me even more happy! Ulrike […]
“Do you have perfect pitch?”
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE “Do you have perfect pitch, or just relative?” I am sometimes asked this question, but before I can get into any […]
Rachel goes to see Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus Works by Haydn and Schubert Elder Hall, 14 April What’d you miss? A concert featuring some of the […]
This is why we love Unsuk Chin
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE ‘Where words fail, music speaks.’ It’s an old quote you might know, once said by storyteller Hans Christian Anderson and growing […]
The women facing “the wolf that lives inside us”
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE A girl walks. She walks alone at night. When she ran, the world watched. What big eyes they have. Our Daughters […]
Rachel Bruerville on procrastination, cats, and ‘Australian’ music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Rachel Bruerville may be a household name to the CutCommon reader. Having written widely about performance anxiety and mental health, and […]
Robert Davidson: “Classical training is a cool thing”
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE Brisbane’s eclectic indie-classical quintet Topology summarises the wide expanse of work the musicians have created in the past 20 years through […]