Classical Fine Music Magazine
Although Charles Ives had virtually ceased composing nine years earlier, when the first two movements of his Fourth Symphony were premiered in New York in 1927.
The year 1948 was one of tribulation for Shostakovich and Prokofiev, censured by the cultural commissars and forced to recant for writing ‘decadent’ and ‘formalistic’ music.
Fine Music Magazine Jazz
Jeannie McInnes looks at the close connections between Jazz and the visual arts. Both encourage creative freedom and improvisation and there are numerous creatives who work in both mediums.
Advance publicity for the Mahler 2 concert in Chatswood bordered on hyperventilation: Massive!, shrieked one headline, Colossal!, trumpeted another.
A 2024 list of contemporary jazz high achievers reveals a surprisingly strong presence of Greek born contributors such as trumpet/flugelhorn player Andreas Polyzogopoulos and the double bassists Mihalis Kalkanis and Petros Klampanis.
Born in the United Kingdom to a mixed heritage – English father and Australian mother – Sydney-based composer, musician, and educator, Keyna Wilkins spent her early days in a small rural village in Somerset, where she first discovered her passion for music.
Barry O'Sullivan Fine Music Magazine Jazz
Matthew Thomson is an award-winning pianist, composer and educator based in Sydney. Having won the prestigious National Jazz Awards in 2021, he continues to build a profile as one of Australia’s prominent jazz pianists.
It was during the 1700s that the secular began overtaking the sacred as the type of music most likely to be written down, distributed, and listened to.
The 20th century Russian composer Gavriil Popov (1904-1972) shared many bonds with his compatriot Dmitri Shostakovich (1906- 1975).
In Ken Raphael’s discourse on the Big Bands After Swing last month, he discussed the impact of the war on the musicians, the demise of the dancehall, ...
