A composer and performer talks about the impact of the pandemic on classical music performances and his experience composing in isolation.
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The classical music scene in Canada is shaped by histories and hierarchies that reinforce racism and cultural appropriation. Black classical musicians are calling for systemic change.
The Munich-based record label ECM specialises in jazz and Western classical music. The artistry found in its catalogue allows a degree of abstraction that can be energising while enduring a pandemic.
Every once in a while, the story that Beethoven was Black circulates in popular culture, but there's no evidence to support this claim.
Is music the best medium to respond to traumatic events like the COVID-19 pandemic? A recent history of such pieces suggests maybe not.
Policy makers and arts sectors together need to reimagine how we might organize contracts, leverage networks and change supports to create more long-term opportunities for arts workers in Canada.
Concert halls may slowly be able to reopen – but difficulties will remain.
Four choirs in 12 concerts cover 500 years of musical terrain, connecting the psalms to the contemporary world for the Adelaide Festival.
Classical music station RNZ Concert may have been saved by an outcry from music lovers – but as a composer, it's clear to me that its management still doesn't realise what a national treasure it is.
In 'Joker' and 'Marriage Story,' sometimes the absence of sound can pack as much of a punch as dramatic music.
Audiences know what it's like to listen to Beethoven's iconic works - but to play his creations as a concert pianist is to grab the music with both hands and join the composer in a powerful battle.
Beethoven's compositions combine power, rhythm and deeply felt meaning - and they did not come easily. The composer was ahead of his time, and he knew it, even then.
This year Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250. Though some of his creations have been overexposed, they are indisputably brilliant. And there are still others waiting to be discovered by music lovers.
Princess movies and opera alike reveal the limited number of models available to women. "Le Dernier Sorcier", composed by Pauline Viardot in 1869, shows that a much richer world is possible.
Soothing tunes for anxious times.
A feast for the senses reminiscent of an all-night rave or the film Bladerunner, Chamber Made's new work Diaspora bathes the audience with broad spectrum frequencies of light and sound.
Land of Hope and Glory seems somehow inappropriate given the current state of British politics.
A conductor's role is about communication with performers and their audience. They do so using eye contact, dress, and of course, the fabled waving of the arms.
A world premiere performance of a new Australian opera is an exhilarating experience. But the music in this reworking of the Peter Carey novel underwhelmed.
An Australian Chamber Orchestra concert features works by Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and The Nationals' Bryce Dessner, along with those of modern Polish composers.
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Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Piano, School of Music, Australian National University
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Musicology, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor and Head of Composition, University of Melbourne
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Reader in Music; Head of Department, City, University of London
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PhD Candidate at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Arts and Teacher Education, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Fellow, Macquarie University
