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Alma Moodie Part II
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Alma Moodie Part II
“Of all my students, I like Alma Moodie the best” Carl Flesch, violinist and pedagogue
Breandáin O'Shea · The Life and Music of Alma Moodie Part II
The Life & Music of Alma Moodie Part 1
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The Life & Music of Alma Moodie Part 1
“Moodie knew violin playing was culturally and spiritually significant”  Goetz Richter, Violinist
Breandáin O'Shea · Alma Moodie Part I
Liza Lim, Composer and Educator
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Liza Lim, Composer and Educator
“We can’t shut the sound out, you know. Our ears are just kind of permeable. Our bodies are permeable and porous to sound, and sound and vibration have such a huge impact on our psyches, our psychological states and our emotional state.”                                                   Liza Lim, Composer
Breandáin O'Shea · Liza Lim, Composer
Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic
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Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic
“The lockdown... I think a few weeks in you start to doubt if you can play anymore. It was just so unsure. You crave it and we didn’t know when we would have to play again.”
Breandáin O'Shea · Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanley Dodds - Violinist & Conductor
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Stanley Dodds – Violinist & Conductor
"For me the interesting musician goes beyond their own instruments and looks into the world of music  - piano, chamber music or orchestral - repertoire. If this is your universe, then there is no doubt in my mind you will be the more interesting musician, simply because your whole universe is bigger. "
Tall Poppies: Postcards – Soprano, Joan Sutherland
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Tall Poppies: Postcards – Soprano, Joan Sutherland
“I think some young singers want to do too much too soon and it's fatal. Some of the young people I don't think realise just how tough it is.” (Joan Sutherland, 1926 -2010)
Shannon Barnett, Jazz Trombonist
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Shannon Barnett, Jazz Trombonist
“New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. It really was a melting pot of different cultures… so you had all these amazing influences from different cultures and that made jazz and that hasn't changed.” Jazz Musician Shannon Barnett, in Tall Poppies, The Podcast
Paul Kildea, Author and Conductor
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Paul Kildea, Author and Conductor
“I have always tried to work out a way of coming up with a single image or analogy or a metaphor, that makes it really clear to a non-specialist, the phenomenon of hearing that piece of music”.
Music Selections
Chopin: 24 Preludes Cédric Tiberghien
Chopin: 13 Preludes(from the 24 Preludes)Sviatoslav Richter Tokyo 1979
Bach JS: Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E flat, BWV 852 – Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, Performed by Wanda Landowska, Harpsichord, 1949
Bach JS: Goldberg Variations –Harpsichord, Performed by Wanda Landowska (First Rec 1933)
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Brett Dean, Composer, Violist, Conductor
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Brett Dean, Composer, Violist, Conductor
In two decades, the Brisbane-born musician Brett Dean has risen from being an orchestral violist who once wrote music on the side, to one of the world’s most celebrated composers.
Music Selections, all compositions by Brett Dean
Title:The Lost Art of Letter Writing – Violin Concerto
Performers:Violin Frank Peter Zimmermann 
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Markus Stenz
Title:Carlo (version for live chorus and strings)
Performers:BBC Singers/BBC Symphony Orchestra
Title:Three Memorials for Orchestra & Between Moments (Music for Orchestra 2003)
Performers:Queensland Youth Orchestra
Title:Pastoral Symphony
Performers:Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Title:Hamlet Diffraction
Performers:Allison Bell, soprano Allan Clayton, tenor BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Joshua Weilerstein
Title:Wendezeit for five violas
Performers:Brett Dean
*Many thanks to Boosey and Hawkes for their assistance in assembling this selection
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Barrie Kosky, Theatre & Opera Director
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Barrie Kosky, Theatre & Opera Director
There are not many stage directors in the world who, in the space of six months, have directed Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and the musical, “Fiddler on the Roof.” But that is exactly how Barrie Kosky spent the second half of 2017. What’s more, this is a typical schedule for the energetic Melburnian.
Music Selections
Title: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will
Composer: Oscar Strauß
Recording: Komische Oper Berlin 2015
Title: Pelleas et Melisande
Composer: Claude Debussy
Recording: Komische Oper Berlin 2017
Title: Ball im Savoy, Kangaru
Composer: Paul Abraham
Recording: Komische Oper Berlin 2013
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