Have you ever wondered why does the oboe begin? How is the starting note decided? With electronic tuning, is the ritual still needed?
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Violins are the largest section of the orchestra, sitting front and centre of the stage performing memorable melodies. But how did the modern orchestra get this set up?
Next time you see someone at the back of the orchestra with their many percussion instruments, take a moment to thank these masters of rhythm and timbre as part of the music you love.
Even though I’ve seen these films many times, and listened to their soundtracks countless times too, I am still willing to pay to revisit them with a live orchestra.
My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face which are unknown to their city-based counterparts.
Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
The two symphonies show different sides to Mahler’s musical sensibilities as he shifted from from the late-Romantic to early Modernist,
The genre has long been viewed as too exclusive, too expensive and too stuffy. Thanks to video games, that’s starting to change.
‘Tár’ shines a spotlight on the challenges of working in the ultraconservative world of classical music, including complex social issues such as misogyny, racism and homophobia.
Tár muddles fact in with its fiction, creating a skewed impression of a conductor’s power.
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Professor of Musicology, Dalhousie University
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Orchestra Director and Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Wake Forest University
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Instructor of Music, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Musicology, Linnaeus University
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Professor of Music, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Science Course Co-ordinator, Southern Cross University
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Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Music Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer in Musicology, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Education (Music), National School of Education, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Director of Performance, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford