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Gabriel Fauré: The French Schumann

Fine Music Magazine Michael Morton-Evans

November 2024 marked the centenary of the death of the French composer, Gabriel Fauré. The man was something of an enigma, largely regarded as easy-going and friendly, but essentially a recluse. He preferred his own company, despite a broken engagement, a marriage and several children.

John Sangster: Australian Jazz Legend

Fine Music Magazine Jazz

John Grant Sangster was an Australian jazz multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as a composer although he also worked with Graeme Bell, Humphrey Lyttelton and Don Burrows. His solo albums include The Lord of the Rings-inspired works starting with The Hobbit Suite in 1973.

Heinrich von Herzogenberg: A Life

Classical Fine Music Magazine

The Austrian composer, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, was the son of a Viennese civil servant. Born in 1843, he turned away from the law to study composition under Felix Dessoff, a professor at the Vienna Conservatory.

Book Review – Big Music

Classical Fine Music Magazine

Gillian Wills is an accomplished music reviewer and memoirist, and this is her debut as an author of fiction. Her background as a professional musician and academic shines through in her writing.

The Unfortunate Eclipse of Peter Cornelius

Fine Music Magazine Michael Morton-Evans

Carl Peter Cornelius loved both poetry and music, but truth be told he never really excelled at either and that was largely because what talent he had was drained in his lifetime by his work attending to, first Franz Liszt then to Richard Wagner.

Arnold Schoenberg: The Musical Disruptor

Classical Fine Music Magazine

The Austrian modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg whose controversial music is either regarded as a stake into the heart and practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, was a musical terror, or as pianist Pina Napolitano puts it, ’an invincible combination of intellect and passion, discipline and expressivity’ at the very centre of the development of the art in the 20th century.

Vocalist Genevieve Brown – High Five

Barry O'Sullivan Fine Music Magazine Interviews

Genevieve Brown is a talented vocalist, musician, and vocal educator with experience teaching students of all ages. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, specialising in Jazz Voice. In both 2012 and 2019, she travelled to New York City for training at The New School in Manhattan.

Conductor Carolyn Watson

Fine Music Magazine Interviews

Since Australian conductor Carolyn Watson moved to the US in 2013, her career has flourished as she has enjoyed opportunities with professional opera and ballet companies and symphony orchestras from coast to coast. She shares some of her thoughts on what goes into putting together an orchestral program.

Charles Ives: The insurance man composer

Classical Fine Music Magazine

October sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of the American composer, Charles Ives. It also marks the 70th anniversary of his death. Despite the fact that Ives sits nowadays among the pantheon of American classical composers, there’s no denying that he was almost totally ignored during his lifetime.

Mike Nock: A Jazz Legend

Barry O'Sullivan Fine Music Magazine Jazz

From stowing away on a boat to Sydney, to winning a scholarship from Down Beat magazine to attend Berklee College of Music and establishing himself in the American heartlands of jazz, Mike Nock’s story has always been one of fierce ambition, determination, and remarkable talent.