Music
Marvellous Music @ Brisbane in May & June
The city of Brisbane in Queensland has an amazing musical life, despite there being a real lack of large venues. However the intimate musical experience thrives. Music making impressions for May & June includes: ORGAN GALA (4MBS Festival) Saturday 19 May , 7.30 pm St Andrew’s Uniting Church (Creek Street) featuring virtuoso keyboard artists PETER [...]
Flights of Garden Fantasy – Inspiring the Human Spirit
Growing beds of flowers is part of the delights of gardening and only one aspect of an ever evolving story that satisfies the human spirit to a profound degree.
Casting Castor & Pollux – With a Little Help from Mozart
To play the role of Castor, in The Pinchgut Opera’s 2012 presentation of Castor and Pollux, a very high tenor voice (haut-contre) is required. They have recently cast American Jeffrey Thomson, who has been based in Paris for the past few years.
The Georgian Era – Monarchs, Middling People, Music & Mozart
The Georgian era (1714 – 1830) in England, from monarchs to middling people and to music supplied by Mozart, was truly a great gaze that began on horseback and ended in a railway carriage
Gaining Enlightenment – Politics, Poetry, Passion & Liberty
The late 18th and early 19th century in England, Europe and America was a period of romantics and revolutionaries, politics, poetry, passion and enlightenment
Australian Chamber Orchestra – Stylish Musical Conversations
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has inherited a fabulous legacy of music to perform in its established repertoire including stylish adventures in sound
The Twelfth Century Awakening and Songs of Courtly Love
The courtly love song sung by a languishing lover to his lovely lady proclaimed that although their love was a secret, because convention required it to be, he was content to let her know she was the sole mistress of his heart.
Mapstone, Shenzo and Shrestha – Flamenco Fusion @ Brisbane
The trio of Mapstone, Shenzo & Shrestha are going on an exciting exploration of exotic and sublime sounds from Nepal, India & Spain, sounds that stir the soul
St Cecilia and Music – The Audible Breath of Ages
St Cecilia was a high born woman whose ancestors loom large in ancient Rome’s history, because she was believed to have sung in her heart to God alone. Martyred for her beliefs she became patron saint of music. Over the centuries the instruments that have played and the voices that have either sung, or narrated [...]
The Schola Cantorum – Singing Songs of Praise as One Voice
In the early Christian church creating songs of praise, devotion and thanksgiving, reflected the beauty of the cosmos. When accompanied by dance movements and hand clapping, from the fourth century onward, rhythmical hymnody took the lead. Aurelius Ambrose (St Ambrose c337 – 397) descended from an ancient Roman family. He shaped his ideas of Christianity [...]
Queensland Ballet Wonderland for François Klaus’s Final Year
In his final year at the helm of the Queensland Ballet Francois Klaus has lost none of his passion or the commitment he is renowned for in imagining Wonderland.
Queensland Flute Workshops with Karen Lonsdale at Brisbane
The Queensland Flute Workshops will be held from 10th to the 13th April at Southbank, Brisbane. Karen Lonsdale and her colleagues involved hope that by attending, ‘students will feel more confident in their exam performances and be more accurate and specific when answering general knowledge questions’.
Sheena Burnell, Features Editor Asia – Shanghai Scenes
From April 2 2012 Sheena Burnell will provide an exciting commentary on the burgeoning Shanghai arts scene, including the visual arts music, dance and literature
Monet’s Garden – Impressions of the Master Artist @ New York
The exhibition Monet’s Garden in The New York Botanical Garden from May 19 to October 21 2012 is sure to be a treat for all seasons, ravishing the senses and providing a fabulous feast for the soul.
Education of Achilles – A Hero, and the Classical Ideal
Greek sculpture was the first, the only ancient art to break free from conceptual conventions, for that of representing men and animals. Artisans wanted to explore consciously how art might imitate nature, or even improve upon it. There was no conscious striving towards realism at first, especially until it was understood to be a possible and desirable goal. This began six centuries before the Christ event.
Alleluia Apollo, Vitruvius, Palladio, Mozart and Jenkins
Changes in the economic order and the social structure of society brought into favour in England and Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century a new style in architecture, literature and the arts. Today it has become more generally known as neoclassicism. Its tenets were based on the considerable legacy of the remains and ruins of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. This sophisticated style of grace by and large, favoured simplicity of form over complexity. It had a taste for structural clarity and it is this emphasis that worked its way into the world of music, taking it forward towards a style in which melody was preferred.
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