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Australian Music News, Monday 30th August Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has been named act of the year at the Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin. He also won the DVD/film clip award for his song Gurrumul History. It was standing room only in the Royal Albert Hall as the Sydney Symphony Orchstra performed at the BBC Proms, under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy. Sydney business leaders have called for the demolition of the Sydney Entertainment Centre to allow for an expansion of the exhibition and convention space at Darling Harbour. Organisers of the Homebake festival, the largest annual celebration of Australian pop and rock music, have announced it will be not happen this year because of an inability to find a suitable headline act. However, the troubled Pyramid Rock Festival will return. Catherine Bottrill, head honcho of British focus group Julie's Bicycle, will be in Brisbane on September 9 to share the organisation's findings on how touring bands can do the planet a favour by cutting down on their fuel and other energy usage. Disband after 21 years, Brisbane's Powderfinger has finally arrived at a core setlist of 20 songs for their Sunsets tour, which starts in Newcastle on Wednesday. Opera Australia's artistic director, Lyndon Terracini, has just confirmed that OA would stage The Ring, Wagner's 15-hour (four-day) epic in 2013—the bicentenary of the German composer's birth. This production will constitute the company's entire spring season.
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Aussie acts account for more than half of the top 10 performers in this week's albums chart, but none have managed to end Eminem's nine-week stranglehold on number one.
Source: Herald Sun
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Like the city’s old neighborhoods, Beijing opera could fall victim to China’s rampant commercialism and modernization.
Source: NY Times
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Sydney business leaders have called for the demolition of the Sydney Entertainment Centre to allow for an expansion of the exhibition and convention space at Darling Harbour.
Source: SMH
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The recent decision to include arts in the national curriculum is a giant step forward for the arts and education.
Source: SMH
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Most young Americans entering university this year can't write in cursive, think email is too slow, that Beethoven's a dog and Michelangelo a computer virus, according to an annual list compiled by two academics at a US college.
Source: The Australian
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The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson — a Schubert sonatina in A minor. His assessment of her playing was diplomatic: “She needed to be reminded about notes and rhythms.”
Source: NY Times
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A German court on Friday declined to issue a preliminary injunction against YouTube which would have forced the site to remove 75 music videos in a drawn-out conflict with eight royalty collecting bodies over licensing fees.
Source: The Age
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Two months ago he was lying low after the last-minute cancellation of his US tour. On Saturday night Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was enjoying the acclaim after being named act of the year at the Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin.
Source: SMH
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Now that climate change can be mentioned again without politicians doing their best rabbit-caught-in-the-headlights impersonation, Spin Doctor notes with a glee bordering on ecstasy one of the key presentations at the upcoming Big Sound Music Conference in Brisbane is a cunning plan to rid nasty, high-pollutin' rock bands of their carbon emissions.
Source: The Australian
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Consumers are the losers if the US outlaws copies of designer dresses.
Source: SMH
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Regional universities suddenly are in a position to benefit from the hung parliament that will be beholden to independents focused on local issues.
Source: The Australian
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Twitter and pop music are helping to keep democracy alive and Islamic extremism in check in Indonesia, a leading progressive Muslim scholar said in Melbourne yesterday.
Source: The Age
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Once they echoed across Japan's temple grounds and battlefields, but today taiko drums, dubbed the country's ancient heartbeat, send out a message that has resonated around the world.
Source: SMH
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The historic French Quarter in New Orleans filled with music pouring from dozens of competing clubs as the afternoon faded five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
Source: SMH
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The John Butler Trio are finally winning over the US with their rockin' roots, writes Craig Mathieson.
Source: SMH
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The queues snaked into surrounding avenues, an early hint of what the British media had dubbed the "Great Aussie musical invasion".
Source: SMH
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The expanding number of Australian summer music festivals has its first casualty - the Homebake festival in Sydney has been canned.
Source: SMH
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Gramophone met up with Klaus Heymann, founder of Naxos, to find out his views of the future of the classical recording business and the role Naxos will play in it.
Source: Gramaphone
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Classical composers Luke Altmann and Kat McGuffie will enjoy the moment when their music is played before a live audience at the Soundstream festival in Adelaide tonight.
Source: Adelaide Now
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Where have you gone, Nicholas Cave? A nation - with a hung parliament - turns its lonely eyes to you.
Source: SMH
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Among international opera companies, Wagner's 15-hour opera The Ring is known as "The Curse''.
Source: The Australian
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The pope has banned faithful followers from bringing vuvuzelas to his public appearances on his UK tour next month.
Source: Adelaide Now
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Australia's home of country music is now at the centre of politics. About time.
Source: SMH
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Abandoning Italy because of what they say are racist government immigration policies, the Italian organisers of a major reggae festival have sought refuge in Spain for this year's edition.
Source: SMH
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Internationally renowned cellist and teacher Georg Pedersen has seen many gifted young musicians over the past three decades, but not too many better than Sydney teenager and Con student Hyung Suk Bae.
Source: Sydney Con
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Universities going for dramatic early growth have been urged to think again as political uncertainty casts a pall over plans to prosper.
Source: The Australian
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Just what constitutes the sound of Australia?
Source: Canberra Times
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It's been showtime for Canberra's public schools this week, with more than 1300 students presenting the annual Step into the Limelight performing arts showcase at the Canberra Theatre.
Source: Canberra Times
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One day in the 1960s, when music was still made by hand, the venerable conductor Otto Klemperer was given a tour of Abbey Road studios. “What’s this man doing?” he demanded, seeing a recording engineer with spools of brown tape around his neck snipping tiny fragments into a master reel.
Source: Telegraph UK
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It's not easy for a rock band to age gracefully in Australia so Powderfinger are preparing to go out with a bang.
Source: SMH
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It's a major coup. Not only are the Helpmann Awards back at the Opera House this year but international cabaret star David Campbell will kick off the evening with a razzle-dazzle performance created especially for the occasion.
Source: SMH
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Condi Rice used to say, 'We have more people in military bands than they have in the Foreign Service.' She was not far wrong.
Source: Washington Post
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I am ashamed to admit that I struggle with musicals. As performers break into snappy show tunes and grapevine line-dance manoeuvres, I will clench my jaw tightly, cross and uncross my legs, and brace myself to get through the whole thing without losing a fingernail or two while tearing out the stuffing of the armrest.
Source: SMH
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When South Australian soprano Greta Bradman gave birth to her first child three years ago, she went looking for lullabies to soothe the newborn.
Source: Adelaide Now
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Five finalists have been announced for the Australian Singing Competition.
Source: Australian Singing Competition
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The coalition has outlined its $70 million plan for the arts which includes incentives to boost Australian film production
Source: SMH
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One of the most important functions of a national government is the facilitation of a nation's cultural identity.
Source: The Australian
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Opera Australia's chief executive, Adrian Collette, said it had been looking to get into cinemas but wanted to ensure high-quality broadcasts and find the right business model.
Source: SMH
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Tiny IT-titan Estonia known for its long tradition of big music festivals is preparing to host the world's first ever digital song festival this week, organiser told AFP.
Source: SMH
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Glenn Richards, of Melbourne's ARIA-winning rock combo Augie March, is about to release a solo album, although he's keeping the release date a secret.
Source: The Australian
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Guitarist Albert Lee is a peer to the world's best. By Bruce Elder.
Source: SMH
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Last Wednesday night in a house at Sydney's Point Piper, a new orchestra was launched.
Source: The Australian
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The state's second orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, which supports ballet and opera performances at the Arts Centre, appears to be in crisis following the loss of more than half of its management this year.
Source: SMH
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A long-running dispute between radio broadcasters and the recording industry over music royalties has taken an unexpected turn with a proposed settlement that threatens to drag the mobile phone industry into the ring.
Source: SMH
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A stunning number of US teenagers have lost a little bit of their hearing - nearly one in five - and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found.
Source: SMH
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Artistic director Lyndon Terracini says the 2011 season marks the beginning of a grand new era for the company, writes Bryce Hallett.
Source: SMH
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Opera-goers awaiting the revolution promised by Opera Australia's new artistic director, Lyndon Terracini, may have to wait longer.
Source: The Australian
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Electro rockers Pendulum believe their music careers would die if they moved back to sleepy Perth.
Source: The Age
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Here we sang the great Charles Wesley hymns with gusto. The congregation frowned on overindulgence, smoking and even dancing but its people were wonderful and steadfast.
Source: Adelaide Now
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A Wollongong soprano has become one of the youngest winners of the 77-year-old McDonald's Operatic Aria competition.
Source: SMH
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There isn't just one recording angel, or even a select few; there are thousands, maybe millions. Each rediscovery of old sound recordings comes to us through a different human filter: a person with a specific job, with specific tastes or aspirations.
Source: The Age
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Music, dance and theatre will adapt to the changing times to reflect the new patchwork culture.
Source: SMH
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Rose Turtle Ertler not only plays her ukelele around the world but she has also created a players' recipe book, writes Lorna Edwards.
Source: SMH
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The Gillard government's interest in the arts is easy to measure. The Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, has announced that if re-elected Labor would give the Australia Council a fresh $10 million for "new and emerging" artists.
Source: SMH
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Mercury Prize winners Klaxons are not your conventional band. Having been dubbed the future of music in the UK, it has taken three and half years for the nu-rave rockers to follow up their debut and for good reason they recorded its third release first.
Source: Adelaide Now
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The latest evidence suggests that poverty is the lot of all but a lucky few, writes Linda Morris.
Source: SMH
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The latest evidence suggests that poverty is the lot of all but a lucky few, writes Linda Morris.
Source: SMH
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A Chinese company bought the White House? No, it's not in Washington DC, but in Branson, Missouri.
Source: China Daily
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Artists will benefit from a $10 million boost for new works and fellowships, and the role of the Australia Council will be expanded.
Source: The Australian
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Three new shows are being produced to honour the Shakespeare of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim
Source: SMH
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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra will take a looser approach and cross musical boundaries next year in a program flush with Italian flavours inspired by its artistic chief's recent visit to the country.
Source: SMH
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Expressions Dance Company has gone into partnership with the Judith Wright Centre, for the first time, and a jazz trio, Misinterprotato.
Source: The Australian
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The music industry has seen massive changes recently - both for better and for worse, as musicians have adapted to changing times, technologies and audiences. In many ways they might be the canaries in the mine for many other art forms.
Source: SMH
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Bruce Lawrence (1932-2010), artist, musician and teacher, was surrounded by art and music for his entire life. Equally drawn to classical music and to the visual arts, he managed to achieve a rare combination of success in both forms of expression.
Source: SMH
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Moffatt Oxenbould retired after 15 years as Opera Australia's artistic director. The Nugent Inquiry into the Major Performing Arts was released. In Melbourne, there was considerable agitation for a new state opera company.
Source: The Australian
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In a bold move, Symphony Australia expands its services and opens doors to the global classical music community as Symphony Services International, effective from Thursday 12 August. This launch coincides with the organisation’s shift into a significant worldwide web-driven presence at www.symphonyinternational.net.
Source: Symphony Services International
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His daughter quoted Nietzsche: "without music, life would be a mistake". Without Kenneth Wilberforce Tribe, Australian music would also have been fairly mistake-ridden as it navigated the growth from postwar provincialism to cosmopolitan richness.
Source: The Age
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Universities will be given more freedom to make direct offers to potential students under a proposed Victorian Tertiary Admission Centre shake-up.
Source: The Australian
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The top agent at Australia's largest music booking agency has left to start up on his own - taking many high-profile and promising stars with him.
Source: Adelaide Now
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As the Sydney Symphony prepares for its European tour this month, including performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, Vladimir Ashkenazy has unveiled one of the orchestra's most ambitious seasons to date.
Source: SMH
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Duo's decision to take out a bank loan to entice prospective fans is a disastrous start to their career, writes Kylie Northover.
Source: SMH
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This expatriate from Hamburg is maintaining her busy schedule, reports Raymond Gill.
Source: SMH
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No one was more surprised when Clare Bowditch won the 2006 Best Female Artist ARIA than the singer-songwriter herself - she famously accepted the pointy trophy while heavily pregnant with her twin boys, Oscar and Eli.
Source: Daily Telegraph
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I have turned into one of those grumpy old women who turn around and glare at people who talk during concerts. Perhaps I am becoming older and less tolerant but it seems that people have forgotten appropriate behaviour when in public.
Source: The Age
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Spaced-out adolescents in headphones litter YouTube, some panting and others wincing as they listen to droning, pulsating soundtracks known as iDoses.
Source: SMH
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Melbourne based guitarist Ben Hauptmann has won the 2010 Freedman Jazz Fellowship after a stand-out performance among the four finalists.
Source: SMH
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While it’s been 11 years since the purple-dreadlocked and pierced Ella Hooper and brother Jesse topped the charts with Killing Heidi, many fans can’t get past the fact that time’s brought the pair more than a change of clothes and hairstyles.
Source: The Age
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Those suffering from post-Splendour blues have reason to smile again, with one of Brisbane’s biggest music festivals returning to rock out the Botanical Gardens.
Source: Courier Mail
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Last week, the vice-chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, Ian Young, expressed his worry about the expansion of bachelor programs in TAFE.
Source: The Australian
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Mike Stock - one third of the legendary pop factory Stock, Aitken and Waterman - said the music industry had gone "too far",
Source: News.com
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MySpace is further defining itself as a place to find music rather than a catchall social networking site. On Thursday, it launched a music video player that plays random videos to match users' mood.
Source: SMH
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The arts sector is a vibrant and entrepreneurial part of the economy, with above-average employment growth and five times more small-business owners and sole traders than the total workforce, according to research to be released this week by the Australia Council.
Source: The Age
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Pop kings Hungry Kids of Hungary took out both the Alternative and Song of the Year categories at last night's Q Song awards in Brisbane.
Source: SMH
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Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang will be a drawcard for Sydney Symphony next year, writes Roger Covell.
Source: SMH
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Hip-hop artists Bliss N Eso helped shape the unfairly treated genre in Australia.
Source: The Age
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Musical friends unite to honour the late, great Maurice Frawley.
Source: The Age
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Viola player, Tara Hashambhoy, has been awarded the EMA Prize for an outstanding student of early music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Source: Early Music Association NSW
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Chamber music tourism is sweeping the globe.
Source: The Australian
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre in partnership with the Harold Mitchell Foundation and the National Gallery of Victoria on Tuesday 3rd August.
Source: The Age
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Proposed changes to how the arts are taught in schools risks dumbing down the curriculum, writes Kerry Thomas.
Source: SMH
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