Month: May 2012

  Sydney Opera House presents THE COMPOSERS: STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE. A Celebration with Synergy Percussion and eighth blackbird in the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE is part of the Sydney Opera House entrepreneurial development wing program. It is presented under the title: THE COMPOSERS and is curated by Yarmila Alfonzetti, the Producer, Classical Music, Sydney Opera House. A CELEBRATION is one of three public events that were presented. During the week there had been an IN CONVERSATION with Mr Reich, and, on the same day as A CELEBRATION, there had been a CHAMBER…

  The Marais Project presents MARA! meets MARAIS CD Launch at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Jennifer Eriksson, Director of The Marais Project, writes: One of the frustrating things about being a musical performer outside the all pervasive popular or rock genres is that invariably one gets stuck with the label ‘classical musician’ with all the negativity this can entail. The US music critic Alex Ross commences his book LISTEN TO THIS with the following sentences: ” I hate ‘ classical music’ : not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in the theme park of…