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International Women’s Day

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International Women’s Day (8 March) is a day for joining voices around the world and shout our message for equal rights: “Women’s rights are human rights!” Check out Jazz-On-Wednesday, Fine Music Magazine, Fine Music Afternoon, and Music of the Night.

The female crescendo

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Having gone to an all-girls’ school, I met a fair share of our species. Some were fierce, others mild and maternal. Pinned outside the philosophy club was a poster, known these days as a ‘meme’: I’m a female. Fe = Iron Male = Man Therefore, I am Iron Man. One doesn’t need to be a chemistry or Marvel Comics nerd to appreciate the mettle of women.

CD Review – Paul Stanhope: Three Quartets – Australian String Quartet

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The Australian composer Paul Stanhope is the focus of a new recording from the Australian String Quartet. Composed between 2008...

Aretha Franklin – An Icon

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Born with an amazing voice, Aretha Franklin grew up surrounded by music, especially by her mother who was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Franklin began singing when she was nine, and around this time began to learn the piano – by ear! Her life changed when she was 18 and she walked into New York’s Columbia Records to record with the Ray Bryant Combo. Even at 18 her voice was astonishing and powerful, although Columbia did not have any idea of her future. A year later in 1961, Franklin was declared ‘New-Star Female Vocalist’ in the DownBeat Critics Poll, a measure of general agreement for the jazz press.

CD Review – Tim Bruer – Love Letters Compostions for Solo Piano

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****Some purists prefer artists to stay in their lane, but often when they venture out of that tried and tested...

A Life of Max Reger

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The German composer and musician Max Reger was both a conservative and a visionary, looking back to the musical forms of the 18th century and forward to the harmonic adventures of the 20th. Reger inherited the gifts of his musician father, quickly developing an ambition to become a composer. This resulted from hearing Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal during his first pilgrimage to Bayreuth.

March – Notes from the Editor

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The March issue of Fine Music Magazine features a celebration of the 150 anniversary, of the under-appreciated, Max Reger. We explore the diverse wealth of talented Australian female musicians and composers, in honour of International Women's Day. There is even a poem exploring Bach's The Art of Fugue...

Nina Simone – Gifted and Black

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Louise Levy looks at Nina Simone, on what would have been her 90th Birthday. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone came from a family filled with music. She was the sixth of eight children, and though her mother rarely showed any affection, she encouraged classical piano. By the time Nina had turned six, she had become the regular church pianist in Tryon.

Hubert Clifford: A true pioneer

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Paul Cooke surveys an early Australian symphonist Hubert Clifford’s Symphony 1940 was something of an anomaly among his compositions. While his...

CD Review – Felicity Wilcox: Threading the light

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Felicity Wilcox’s major composition, the chamber opera Threading the light, was completed and recorded in 2012 as part of her PhD in composition. It has now been released, spurred on by its recent world premiere performance by The Cooperative at Pitt Street Uniting Church.