Issue August 2018 - Limelight (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUECOUGHS? I’VE HEARD A FEW...Coughing. I can hardly remember a concert when I haven’t heard someone hacking or snuffling away. And with winter upon us, there has been a cacophony of it, not to mention programs crashing to the floor and phones going off – all of which is distracting for both the musicians and the audience. At one recent performance, it got so bad that a gentleman a few seats along from me politely asked the lady next to him, who had coughed off and on throughout the entire first act, if she would mind leaving. She did so with good grace. In June, Maestro Riccardo Muti brought the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to a halt when a quiet moment was disrupted by talking and a loud cough (see page 13). When we first…2 min

IN THIS ISSUEContributorsCHRIS LLOYD GUEST COLUMN PAGE 20 Chris is a Berlin-based concert pianist, curator and co-founder of international interdisciplinary movement, Crossmodalism. Passionate about radical disruption in the classical music industry, he is currently writing his first book exploring the flaws in the existing system. ANDREW MELLOR EDGE OF THE WORLD PAGE 36 Andrew writes journalism and criticism for a number of publications in the UK, the USA and across the Nordic and Baltic region. He lives in Copenhagen where he is Scandinavian correspondent for Opera and Opera News and is a regular guest on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review. ALBERT EHRNROOTH HALLE PAGE 64 Born in Finland, Albert grew up in Holland, and has lived in Belgium and Australia. He studied musicology, has worked as an actor, director and translator and…1 min

IN THIS ISSUEWHAT’S HAPPENING ON OUR WEBSITE?In Town for Townsville’s AFCM We report from Kathryn Stott’s first Australian Festival of Chamber Music with reviews and interviews with the likes of trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth (right). Shostakovich Four take two BSO violinist Vyacheslav Uritsky (below left) has just recorded Shostakovich’s Fourth under Andris Nelsons. He talks to us about playing in the premiere in 1964. On the ground in Bayreuth Paul Selar makes the Wagnerian pilgrimage to this year’s Bayreuth Festival and reviews Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. A nautical BRAVO for Todd Adored as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, Todd McKenney (far right) tells us about his show for BRAVO Cruise of Performing Arts, leaving Sydney in November. www.limelightmagazine.com.au…1 min

REGULARS…LettersANTON TO CLASSICAL MUSIC I was delighted to read your article on Anton Enus (June 2018). Anton has been sadly missed by SBS watchers. His story is a tribute to classical music and to Richard Gill who has been clamouring for years about the need for our children to hear classical music. It is a sad reflection on the AMEB [Australian Music Examinations Board] and on our society that nowadays music exams do not require much classical input. How are children ever to know classical music exists if they never hear it? At least Anton Enus heard blues and jazz as a child. I can only rejoice he finally discovered the beauty of classical music too. Etiennette Fennell, Panorama, SA COUGH SWEETS [In response to the online Limelight story about…3 min

REGULARS…DON’T FORGET THAT MUSICIANS ARE HUMANThanks for the lovely review Limelight [of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s Simone Young and Kolja Blacher concert on July 6]. Just a brief note to your reviewer, however, to give context to some of the ‘trivialities’ he mentioned: bottles of water on stage and a player having to leave during the performance. Whilst these sights may have mildly offended, it’s just a brief reminder that as musicians, we are as human as those sitting in the audience. Playing a 50-minute symphony that asks a lot of you physically and mentally is hard enough.... doing so whilst you have the flu like half of Melbourne is quite another challenge. Having some water on stage can sometimes be the difference in making it through a concert when you’re ill. And the only…1 min

REGULARS…Trio Marvin wins MICMC Grand PrizeThe Berlin-based Trio Marvin has taken out the $30,000 Grand Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, as well as the $22,500 First Prize in the Piano Trio division. German-South Korean Trio Gaon won Second Prize in the Piano Trio division, while Third Prize went to the Amatis Piano Trio, with musicians from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. Germany’s Goldmund Quartett won First Prize in the String Quartet division, taking home $30,000, with the Eliot Quartett – from Austria, Russia and Germany – taking second and the USA’s Callisto Quartet taking Third Prize. “The standard has been exceptional, making the jurors’ decision extremely challenging,” MICMC Artistic Director Wilma Smith said. “We’ve been privileged to witness the future of chamber music taking shape right here in Melbourne. And what…2 min

Issue August 2018 - Limelight (2024)

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