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Bill Henson's operatic portrait series on display again (audio)
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Bill Henson's portrait of conductor Simone Young features in a new focus on women display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Topics: fine-art-photography, library-museum-and-gallery, opera-and-musical-theatre, classical, human-interest, canberra-2600
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New youth orchestra cultivates young western Sydney talent
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Young musicians from across western Sydney, the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains are busy rehearsing for the first performance of the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Topics: orchestral, classical, music, music-education, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, sydney-2000
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Family reflects on life on the road living off strings and bows
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Wollongong's Moir family packed up their lives and moved into a caravan at the start of 2016 with a view to playing orchestral concerts and busking around Australia.
Topics: classical, family-and-children, travel-and-tourism, wollongong-2500, adelaide-5000
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How Bob Brown and Tasmania inspired a concerto
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Bob Brown recently helped inspire the creation of a brand new oboe concerto, premiering at the Sydney Opera House next week.
Topics: brown-bob, classical, music, arts-and-entertainment, environment, cygnet-7112, tas, australia
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From ads to icebergs: the music of a maestro
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Although you may not know it, you are probably familiar with the music of acclaimed composer Ludovico Einaudi, which frequently features on TV and has also been played amidst icebergs.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, classical, composer, australia, adelaide-5000
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Former concert pianist to teach in Ringarooma bank building
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Ringarooma's original bank turned out to be the perfect home for a former concert pianist who is excited to be living in the small north-east Tasmanian town.
Topics: music, classical, human-interest, community-and-society, ringarooma-7263
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Lilly Cascun dreams of a future like her biggest idol, who was also born visually impaired Video
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Lilly Cascun has been blind since birth, but it hasn't stopped her dreaming of becoming a famous opera singer.
Topics: music, opera-and-musical-theatre, classical, disabilities, melbourne-3000
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One Plus One: Richard Tognetti Video
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Violinist Richard Tognetti admits fear is ever-present while performing live or pursuing his passion for surfing. But the artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra isn’t scared to speak out over funding for the arts.
Topics: music, popular-culture, environment, oceans-and-reefs, computers-and-technology, chamber, chamber-instrumental, classical, electronic, instrument-making, orchestral, pop, government-and-politics, australia, austria, italy, united-kingdom
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Violin virtuoso siblings perform together for first time in 25 years
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It has been more than two decades since Australian siblings Stanley, Daniel and Kyli Dodds — all world-renowned violin players — performed together. Now they're about to reunite as part of the Australian World Orchestra.
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Sofia, Daniel, Stanley and Kyli Dodds circa 1979. image
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Siblings Daniel, Kyli and Stanley Dodds rehearse image
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New York Philharmonic live streams opening concert on Facebook
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Classical music lovers, rejoice — one of the leading orchestras in the US live streams its 175th season's first concert on Facebook.
Topics: classical, music, social-media, united-states
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Mildura's Siobhan Stagg performs in her first BBC Proms
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Australians Simone Young and Siobhan Stagg are shining on the classical music world stage after making their debut performances at the BBC Proms in London.
Topics: classical, music, opera-and-musical-theatre, mildura-3500
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Western students get together for European musical tour
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Music students from regional New South Wales are set to wow European audiences during a major concert tour.
Topics: classical, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, austria
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to play with circus acrobats soaring over them
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An international circus troupe will be soaring above the violins and trombones of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) this weekend in a fusion of the two art forms.
Topics: orchestral, music, arts-and-entertainment, performance-art, classical, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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The arts must rise above the Brexit fallout Opinion
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British composers as far back as the 1920s have used their music to speak compassionately of the universal human condition. To bring people together. Whatever the Brexit fallout, the arts must continue to unite rather than divide.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, classical, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs
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Bach to basics: Rediscovering music after years of hearing loss
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The word rehabilitation conjures up images of physiotherapy, but when Peter Cianchi got a cochlear implant he found he needed help to renew his love for classical music.
Topics: music-education, classical, orchestral, people, disabilities, canberra-2600
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First Fleet piano donated to university after centuries trading hands
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Australia's first piano, brought to Sydney in 1788 on board the First Fleet, has been donated to Edith Cowan University, which plans to restore the instrument so it can be played again.
Topics: history, music, classical, university-and-further-education, edith-cowan-university-6018, perth-6000
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Perth conductor breaks glass ceiling to lead Giovanni Consort
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Young Perth musician Kate Oliver is breaking the glass ceiling in the male-dominated world of classical conducting, becoming the youngest female to lead Perth's Giovanni Consort by almost 20 years.
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