sydney symphony Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/sydney-symphony/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Thu, 18 May 2023 01:13:25 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.jwire.com.au/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Jwirelogocleangoog.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 sydney symphony Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/sydney-symphony/ 32 32 6446428 A blend of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the new: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing https://www.jwire.com.au/a-blend-of-the-familiar-the-unfamiliar-and-the-new-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/ https://www.jwire.com.au/a-blend-of-the-familiar-the-unfamiliar-and-the-new-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 01:13:25 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=147426 Having Wolfgang in your name would seem to direct your destiny towards musical composition. It certainly did with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, (1897 – 1957)  whose only symphony was played by the SSO last night. Austrian-American Korngold might have become one of the 20th century’s leading classical composers. Still, because of a need to make a […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/a-blend-of-the-familiar-the-unfamiliar-and-the-new-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/feed/ 0 147426 A beauty and two beasts: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing https://www.jwire.com.au/a-beauty-and-two-beasts-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/ https://www.jwire.com.au/a-beauty-and-two-beasts-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:09:25 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=142295 Under the baton of Simone Young, the SSO turned in a stirring performance last night from the two big Bs: Brahms’ first symphony and Beethoven’s violin concerto with soloist James Ehnes. But first came the latest rung in the wondrously growing ladder of contemporary Australian composers. Unlike many of the works of little-known local composers […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/a-beauty-and-two-beasts-music-review-by-fraser-beath-mcewing/feed/ 1 142295 Bronfman returns and brings Mahler with him https://www.jwire.com.au/bronfman-returns-brings-mahler/ https://www.jwire.com.au/bronfman-returns-brings-mahler/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2014 20:26:13 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=47900 He saw him rehearse the Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra...now Fraser Beath McEwing reviews the concert itself.

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