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limelight-arts.com.au | Jason Blake
Musica Viva Australia has unveiled the finalists and prize winners for the 2025 Strike A Chord competition, the national chamber music contest for secondary school students. Now in its fifth year, the program continues to grow, drawing a record 170 ensemble entries from across the country. Twelve groups have been named Championship Section finalists and will perform in the National Final at Melbourne Recital Centre on 30 August 2025.
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limelight-arts.com.au | Jason Blake
Our experience of the world often involves hearing our environment before seeing it. Whether it’s the sound of something moving through nearby water, or the rustling of vegetation, our fear of the unseen is rooted in our survival instincts as a species. Cinematic sound and music taps into these somewhat unsettling instincts – and this is exactly what director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams achieved in the iconic 1975 thriller Jaws.
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limelight-arts.com.au | Jason Blake
Sydney’s cold snap may have kept numbers down a tad on the customary full houses, but Australian Brandenburg Orchestra regulars certainly got their money’s worth when the band’s latest tour, Baroque Unleashed, opened at the City Recital Hall. The program featured soloists from within the orchestra and if you were to compile a playlist of Baroque favourites many of these works would be on it, starting with the fourth of Arcangelo Corelli’s 12 ground-breaking concerti grossi.
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limelight-arts.com.au | Jason Blake
Having earned good notices for its production of Anna Zeigler’s biographical women-in-science drama Photograph 51 in its 2022 season (including one from Limelight), Ensemble Theatre has programmed another in the form of US writer Lauren Gunderson’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie.
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limelight-arts.com.au | Jason Blake
Alfred Brendel, one of the most revered and important pianists of the 20th and early 21st centuries, whose probing intellect and poetic touch brought a new depth to the works of Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart, has died in London at the age of 94. Austrian by birth but European by sensibility, Brendel was as much a philosopher as a pianist. For over six decades, he stood at the summit of classical music, not only as a performer but as an essayist and thinker.
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Actually true. In mi kitchen bin to be precise. https://t.co/WlFpNDJSwM
Sad news indeed. Maeliosa Stafford was the prime mover of so many memorable theatre experiences in Sydney. https://t.co/fHkrMOlm2J via @LimelightArtsAu
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