Vladimir Ashkenazy is considered a giant in the world of classical music.
Conducting formed the largest part of his career over many decades though he is also one of the few artists to combine his conducting with a successful career as a pianist. He maintained his passion for and devotion to piano playing throughout his career, mostly in the recording studio. His discography also records his work as a conductor and charts his path to becoming the pre-eminent interpreter of Rachmaninov’s orchestral music in particular.
In 2018 he was named as the very first Conductor Laureate of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and is also Conductor Laureate at the Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Ashkenazy has always been driven to keep classical music in the mainstream media so it can be enjoyed by a broad audience. With that goal in mind he was involved in numerous television and documentary film projects about music and performance, including the
Tears and joy as SSO returns to the live stage
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Were she to sum up her year living with COVID-19, conductor Simone Young says she would have to resort to âunseemly languageâ.
Young was in Barcelona after a whirlwind dash of dates between Japan, Minnesota, New York and Helsinki when, overnight, the pandemic emptied her packed calendar.
In the months since, through Europeâs hard lockdowns and re-openings, Young has submitted to 22 COVID-19 tests, performed for large concert hall audiences and live streamed in near empty rooms.
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Broadway Records’ Limited Edition Double Record Vinyl Set of The Color Purple Out!
Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment motion picture, THE COLOR PURPLE is adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Marsha Norman, with music and lyrics by Grammy award winners Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray.
The limited-edition vinyl is now available on BroadwayRecords.com and other major music retailers including Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
Sex magic, occult art and acid: the story of the infamous witch of Kings Cross Brigid Delaney
They didn’t quite burn witches in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, but they didn’t make it easy for them either.
Take Rosaleen Norton, an artist and self-identified witch who the tabloids called “the witch of Kings Cross”. She was repeatedly arrested, had her artwork burned and was shunned and mocked by society.
Norton eked out a very modest living selling her art, and putting spells and hexes on people and her story has been captured in a new documentary, released online on Tuesday.
In 2020, the arts sector was dramatically affected by COVID-19. In June, the government announced their $75 million Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) scheme and in November the first successful applicants were announced.
Rather than distributing funds through existing arms-length processes at the Australia Council, public servants from within Paul Fletcher’s Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts department would be making grants decisions in relation to this fund.
While they could seek advice from staff at the Australia Council or from the new Creative Economy Taskforce set up by the minister in mid-2020, they were under no obligation to do so.