Music
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Beethoven at 250: Four Masterpieces to Celebrate the Big Day
Among the countless COVID cultural casualties has been the big Beethoven birthday bash. Daniel Lelchuk The Bulwark The 2020 calendar…
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How Greek musicians weathered an economic crisis could help UK performers handle COVID fall-out
Opening a virtual concert in support of music workers, his words were emotional – but firm: Ioannis Tsioulakis The Conversation…
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days
It’s a tradition worth noticing, as the Messiah was originally composed as an Easter offering, first performed in Dublin on…
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Beethoven: ‘Happy birthday, Maestro, and thank you for the beauty you have left us’
“Virginia Woolf wanted to be buried to it” Sinéad Doyle The Irish Times Marina Carr, prolific and award-winning Irish playwright…
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Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia is a film honouring the love of the live performance
We had travelled south from Brisbane to see show number 141 of a 143-date world tour of David Byrne’s American…
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Two of Us: inside John Lennon’s incredible songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney
His tendency to speak in bold strokes – “Before Elvis there was nothing!” – belied at times both the variety…
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A magpie’s song that lifted the darkness: new opera tells potent tale
“But they sing, and sing to you. And that carolling is the most glorious thing.” Nick Miller WA Today In…
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Ahead of the Jazz 100 countdown, here are 10 singers worth your time
And perhaps that’s fair: they have, after all, been the art form’s principal innovators. Andrew Ford The Music Show &…
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Trailblazing Australian singer Helen Reddy dead at 78
Her children, Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers, confirmed her death in a statement on Reddy’s official Facebook page on Wednesday…
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Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess
Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman and take her away from all the misery…
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Ennio Morricone: a versatile composer with a distinct sound
The maestro left this world on July 6 but his work is sure to move generations of music and film…
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The week’s best TV, film, books and music
Classic TV – Parks and Recreation BBC This brilliant sitcom has back in the news in recent weeks, after its…
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Little Richard, a flamboyant architect of rock ‘n’ roll, is dead at 87
Alen said Little Richard died in Nashville with his brother and son by his side, and the cause of death…
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Breaking Glass review: Sydney Chamber Opera livestreams premiere
There are very few silver linings that have developed from the current catastrophic health crisis, but the wider accessibility of…
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Struggling Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ‘stands down’ all musicians
The MSO will keep only “essential” employees on staff during the lockdown, MSO chair Michael Ullmer said in a letter…
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Bill Withers: soul music’s ‘everyman’ wrote songs for the world to lean on
From schoolchildren in Scotland, to quarantined apartment residents in Dallas and online virtual choirs around the world, the song has…
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