When Paul Sacher died aged 93 in 1999, he was the third richest man in the world. He was also a violinist, conductor, musicologist and founder of various orchestras, choirs, musical research institutes and patron to some 88 modern composers.…
Kaleidoscope is an Arts Magazine program designed to bring the music, drama and literature in the Adelaide community, and from wider afield, to 5mbs listeners. This week it is presented by Gabrielle Scherrer and can be heard each Wednesday at…
Was Mozart’s wife, Constanze Maria Weber, a flibbertigibbet spendthrift, prone to infidelity and an inappropriate spouse of a great musician? To read some of the opinions of the time, including, and especially by, Mozart’s father and sister, this would seem…
CHOPIN’S PIANO A Journey Through Romanticism by Paul Kildea The author of this book, is currently the Artistic director of Musica Viva. For 2021 he planned to tour a first-person present-tense theatre-music piece created by an actor and director based…