Tag: Classical music
From Jaws to Star Wars to Harry Potter: John Williams, at 90, is our greatest living composer
Image: AP Photo/FILES
John Williams, the man who changed the way we hear the movies, turned 90 yesterday.
As the key Hollywood composer during the blockbuster...
Why Beethoven wasn’t the original punk rocker of classical music
Comparing Beethoven to punk rockers is based on the composer’s attitude to tradition, but is it an accurate categorization? (Shutterstock)
Last summer, the meme...
Four Indigenous composers and a piano from colonial times — making passionate, layered, honest music together
Nardi Simpson plays the square piano, similar to one that arrived on the First Fleet. Jamie Kidston, Author provided (No reuse)
Despite having different cultural backgrounds...
Permission To Shine – a new online singing competition with a difference!
Play It Forward, created by founding artistic director Dr Jonathon Welch AM, is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Permission to Shine, which...
In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
Performers in Speechless, a new opera by composer Cat Hope,
co-commissioned by the Perth Festival and Tura New Music. The opera is a response
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