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Highlights from a week of<br>Classical Fine Music

Classical News and Events Program Highlights

Here is just a small sample from this week's Classical Fine Music. The World of the Symphony, Baroque and Beyond, and Music of the Night

Jazz After Hours

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Late night Sundays and Mondays are special times of the week. Catch the jazz crew with jazz to engage, relax and refresh. From 10pm,...

In Conversation: Naseema Sparks AM

In Conversation Interviews Simon Moore

14/9 - Naseema Sparks AM is an experienced company director whose passion for the arts led her to take on key leadership roles at board level in organisations such as the Sydney Biennale and the Sydney Dance Company. Now chair of Sydney Living Museums and Music in the Regions, one of our newest arts organisations, she has said “the arts is my balance, it’s good for the soul”, which is a sentiment we can all agree with! In this conversation,

2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine – September Out Now!

Fine Music Magazine

The September issue of the 2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine has just been released. This month Virginia Ginnane talked to the 2019 Winner of the 2MBS Fine Music’s inaugural Ken Weatherly Jazz Scholarship, Kate Wadey, about her third album, the song-writing collaboration with the musicians she works with, and the relief of coming out of lockdown. Our cover features Ensemble Offspring’s Listen Up!, a micro festival of new music at the National Art School in Darlinghurst this month.

Tom Forrester-Paton on Tour

Station news

2MBS Presenter Tom Forrester-Paton on holiday in Italy and ticking off a few bucket list items - at la Scala to hear a recital by Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff songs, and then a day trip from Milan to Cremona to see the violin museum.

Ramsey Lewis (May 27, 1935 – September 12, 2022)

Tributes

Ramsey Lewis, the iconic jazz pianist and composer who scored on the pop charts with hits “The In Crowd,” "Hang On Sloopy" and "Wade In The Water" died peacefully at his home in Chicago at 87.

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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Director of Fine Music Sydney and chairman of the board of directors, Michael Morton-Evans OAM, reflects on the reign of the longest-lived British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her passing, September 9, 2022.

In Conversation: Lyndon Terracini

In Conversation Interviews Simon Moore

7/9 - Lyndon Terracini has certainly left his mark on Australian opera – and he’s not done yet. He has been Artistic Director of Opera Australia since 2009, however his association with opera goes back decades, having first appeared with the company as a baritone in the 1970s. His operatic career took him to his ancestral home of Italy, though he made frequent visits back to Australia to perform here to

Letters from a Black Snake

CD of the Week

The CD Letters from a Black Snake contains two Song Cycles by George Palmer – Letters from a Black Snake, with text taken from the letters of Ned Kelly and Figures in an Urban Landscape, with text by three Australian poets, Judith Wright, Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor.

Coy Composers Round 2 – A Word Puzzle

Classical Trivia and Crossword

Find these historical musicians hiding in plain sight – coincidentally all celebrating birthdays in September! Click HERE to play