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Fine Music Sydney

Locality: St Leonards, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9439 4777

Address: 72-76 Chandos Street 2065 St Leonards, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.finemusicsydney.com

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25.01.2022 Welcome to the launch of our 2021 Fine Music Sydney Transmitter Appeal. We are fortunate to have the endorsement of the Governor of New South Wales our Vice-Regal Patron Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales. We hope you can help us with this vital appeal, with your help, we hope to raise the funds needed to move our transmitter from Governor Philip Tower in the CBD to its new home in Artarmon, which is estimated to cost us in the o...rder of $265,000. Please consider supporting us with a tax-deductible donation, every bit helps and your support really would mean everything to us. Please click on the link below to watch Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC's message and to donate to our Transmitter Appeal. https://finemusicsydney.com/transmitterappealvideo/

24.01.2022 Langston Hughes’ First Book of Jazz (1955) Illustrations by Cliff Roberts For Langston Hughes’s 3rd book in the First Books series, he turned his attention to a subject that was of great importance to him: jazz. It was the first children's book to examine the "American music," and Hughes felt the responsibility. As he wrote in a letter to Arna Bontemps, "what I really know about Jazz would fill a thimble!," and so he made sure that the text was reviewed by Dave Martin, Ma...rshall Stearns, John Hammond, and other jazz experts. To his editor Helen Hoke, he confessed that The First Book of Jazz was "just about the toughest little job I've ever done." The book opens with Louis Amstrong, who becomes the lens through which the history of jazz is revealed. Little Louis grew up in New Orleans, a town where everyone played music, often spontaneously and with abandon. "To the players, it is play--just for fun. That is how the music called jazz began--with people playing for fun." Throughout the book, Hughes truthfully highlights African-Americans' role in the development of jazz music. "A part of American music is jazz, born in the South. Woven into it in the Deep South were the rhythms of African drums that today make jazz music different from any other music in the world. Nobody else ever made jazz before we did. Jazz is American music." Despite the patriotic tone, the particular Americans in question are undeniably black. In a photo spread of "Great Jazz Pianists" African-American musicians outnumber white seven to three. (The men to women ratio is seven to three as well, interestingly.) Even when Hughes covers the vast array of American styles that went into jazz, they tend to be (as they should be) black interpretations of each musical form. Louis Armstrong's life story then kicks back in, because as Hughes states, "The story of Louis Armstrong is almost the whole story of orchestral jazz in America." Through Amrstrong, Hughes can move the story from New Orleans to Chicago to New York City to the world. With the history done, Hughes then discusses the mechanics of jazz: improvisation, syncopation, percussion, rhythm, blue notes, tone color, harmony, break, riff, and continuing his theme ("It was not just playing music. It was playing--like a game--with music, for fun.") the joy of playing. At the end of the book, Hughes provides three appendices that are of interest to any jazz fan: "Famous Jazz Musicians," "Suggested Records for Study (Part 1, Part 2)," and "100 of My Favorite Recordings (Part 1, Part 2)." Ariel Winter

23.01.2022 Hallelujah! Let’s celebrate the end of this year with The Song Company and their extraordinary performance of Handel’s beloved Messiah Part 1. In true spirit of 2020, this performance will be streamed straight to a screen near you via the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall on 9 December at 7pm. Tickets are only $24 and you can have friends and family join around for a little Messiah watch & sing-along party. The Song Company singers are joined by the Bach Akademie Australia t...o bring the joy of live performance and Christmas to your ears! Tickets : https://the.song.company/messiah or directly from the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall: https://melbournedigitalconcerthall.com/the-song-company-m/

21.01.2022 The December Fine Music Magazine is out now featuring one of our Artistic Patrons, Brett Weymark. We continue our Beethoven 250 Festival, highlighting Beethoven's unique Chamber Music and Incidental Music with two great articles. Also featured in this month's magazine is a look at Australian Women in Jazz - pioneers of the past 100 years and Part 4 in the Why Jazz is Cool series looks at Christmas Jazz music and a great Christmas playlist to get you in the holiday spirit! Fin...e Music Magazine is available to all Fine Music Sydney supporters. Not a supporter? What are you waiting for! Become a supporting subscriber now on our website to get exclusive access to features such as Radio on Demand, 12 magazines per year, exclusive opportunities to win tickets to events, exclusive invitations to Fine Music Sydney events and functions, and the satisfaction that you are helping to keep us on-air and supporting emerging Australian talent through our emerging artist programs. We Wouldn't Be Here Without You! https://finemusicsydney.com/magazine/

20.01.2022 Multiple-awarded pianist Hayato Sumino, known professionally as Cateen, shows us that a simple tune, when delivered to the hands of a master, can be turned into a musical masterpiece. Sumino’s take on the nursery rhyme starts off as a simple one, he then turns to Mozart for inspiration, then ragtime, a sprinkle of Lizst and Chopin, and finishes with a dab of Looney Tunes. Sumino started playing the piano at age three.

19.01.2022 Barry O'Sullivan's guest on A Jazz Hour today was former Fine Music Kruger Scholar Frances Madden, who was in to preview tracks from her latest recording Beautiful World and to chat about the upcoming Beautiful World Album Launch at Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre on Saturday 28 November! Book tickets to the Live Performance & Livestream at https://bit.ly/3njlyXp Enjoy Barry's interview with Frances in the meantime https://bit.ly/3eRYQ5Q We also have a signed copy of Beautiful World to giveaway, enter now our giveaway here https://bit.ly/38CWrdX

19.01.2022 Even if you’re wearing a face mask, it’s really important to keep your distance from others, unless you live together. Remember, the best protection against COV...ID-19 is to do all of the following: > Keep 1.5m apart. > Practise good hand hygiene. > Stay home and get tested immediately if unwell. > Wear a mask if unable to physically distance. Find out how you can help stop the spread: https://www.nsw.gov.au//how-to-protect-yourself-and-others

18.01.2022 The first Book & CD fair of 2021 starts tomorrow! Everyone fancies a bargain and there’s no better place to find one than at the Fine Music Book and CD Fair which opens at the Crows Nest Centre, 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest from Thursday 14th to Sunday 24th January. There’s an unbelievable range of books designed for readers of everything from hardback popular fiction to the classics and if music’s your bag, you’ll have literally thousands of CDs to choose from at bargain-base...ment prices. Doors open at 6pm on opening night Thursday and then daily from 9am to 6pm right up until Sunday 24th January. For more info click below: https://finemusicsydney.com/bookandcdfair/

16.01.2022 Join Andrew Bukenya today at 1pm for SSO Hour! The musicianship of in-demand conductor Jaime Martin is celebrated in his other career as a principal orchestral flautist. Tune in to hear him in Bach's majestic Brandenburg alongside violinist Kenneth Sillito & Murray Perahia. Fine Music ambassador and friend Simon Tedeschi sparkles in Mozart and in our new Unheard series, SSO Principal Bass Clarinet, Alex Morris (pictured), makes a case for more Gerald Finzi on Australian concert stages. Tune in live or listen later on radio on demand.

15.01.2022 Brazilian maestro Joao Carlos Martins given a new lease on his performing life, thanks to the generosity of an engineer who made him some bionic gloves!

14.01.2022 Loving the way Dizzy Gillespie is looking adoringly at Ella Fitzgerald in this photo.

14.01.2022 Music in The Sky pushes the boundaries of a traditional music event to create an immersive musical evening like nothing you have experienced before. The performance features Australian Music Prize-nominated composer and pianist Luke Howard with The Nano Symphony in a six-piece ensemble, covering modern neoclassical styles to the classical greats. The narrative will take you on a musical and spatial journey from sunset to dreaming and sunrise, with live digital projections and... contemporary performance choreographed to the live music score. Whether you’re a classical lover or a lover of extraordinary experiences, come and slow down with us and be immersed in music, lights and love. 29th & 30th May 2021 Roundhouse in Kensington . NSW Discover vouchers accepted www.MusicintheSky.com.au

14.01.2022 Music lovers, you're allowed to attend outdoor performances of 500 people from today More info http://bit.ly/easing-restrictions-music-and-hospitality

13.01.2022 Now that COVID restrictions have eased slightly, what is the next event or performance you are looking forward to attending?Now that COVID restrictions have eased slightly, what is the next event or performance you are looking forward to attending?

12.01.2022 A four hundred-year-old Guarneri violin, the sparkling metropolis that Handel saw, and a journey into Bach’s inner universe. Live and luminous, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra invites you to celebrate your return to the concert hall in 2021 with a year of Baroque music. From the streets of Baroque Italy to the Austrian town of Oberndorf, be transported on a journey from the triumphant to the sublime. Classic Sydney subscriptions are on sale until 28 January 2021, with subscription packages starting at $88. Book your subscription now at brandenburg.com.au/subscribe

12.01.2022 Member of the musical comedy team, The Goofers, entertaining the audience by swinging upside down while playing the bull fiddle. (Photo by Loomis Dean/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

10.01.2022 The sensational new Netflix series The Queen's Gambit is currently number 1 on the platform's rankings, and for good reason. It tells the story of Beth Harmon, an orphan who develops an extraordinary understanding of chess, and who subsequently embarks on a thrilling path, working her way through the ranks of the world's finest players. The show's soundtrack was written by Carlos Rafael Rivera and is central to the tension, the victories, and the drama of Beth's world. It became clear to me that I was going to have multiple melodic lines to horizontally imitate the game point/move, counterpoint/response, Rivera told Composer magazine. Both the show and the soundtrack are highly evocative and highly recommended.

09.01.2022 All eyes are on Andra Day in her acting debut in the official trailer for The United States vs. Billie Holiday. The Grammy-nominated singer stars as the beloved blues singer who is renowned as the voice of her generation. Directed by Lee Daniels, the film explores Holiday’s career as she was targeted by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. It also centers around dark periods of her life including addiction and the trauma she coped with as she was heralded as an immense talent during a time of racial reckoning in the United States. There is a language warning for this film trailer.

09.01.2022 Who knew "Dance Monkey" was a jazz song?

08.01.2022 How incredible is the power of music!

07.01.2022 Ella Fitzgerald was wrongly arrested on Oct. 7, 1955, along with Dizzy Gillespie, Houstonian Illinois Jacquet, jazz impresario Norman Granz and Georgiana Henry for shooting dice in Fitzgerald’s dressing room at the Music Hall. I have nothing to say, she told reporters. What is there to say? I was only having a piece of pie and a cup of coffee. https://blog.chron.com//on-integration-jazz-and-the-arres/

07.01.2022 From Tuesday, 1 December: Up to 50 people (currently 20) can visit a residence as long as an outdoor space is being utilised, however, it’s recommended no more than 30 people gather if the residence has no outdoor area. Up to 50 people can gather outdoors in a public space (currently 30). Small hospitality venues (up to 200 square metres in size) will be allowed to have one person per two square metres indoors.... From Monday, 14 December: The Public Health Order requiring employers to allow employees to work from home (where it is reasonably practicable to do so) will be repealed. As employees return to the office, workplaces are encouraged to have COVID-Safe plans. Employers are encouraged to stagger staff starting and finishing times to reduce the impact on public transport. Customers using public transport are strongly encouraged to wear a mask. https://www.nsw.gov.au//restrictions-eased-time-for-christ

07.01.2022 Arguably the world's best known Ethnomusicologist, Alan Lomax in his music archive with two Ampex 602-2 recorders, during the1960s. Lomax's contribution to preserving folk music from around the globe is still reverberating today, his collection of artifacts both aural and visual housed in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Read more about Alan Lomax here: https://www.theatlantic.com//how-alan-lomax-changed/69182/

04.01.2022 From Friday 16 October, more people will be allowed in outdoor areas at hospitality venues. More info http://bit.ly/easing-restrictions-music-and-hospitality

03.01.2022 On now is Fine Music Drive with Ross Hayes, who for the final hour has selected music to fit in with aspects of David Leser's recent article in Good Weekend, A family in tune: honouring a musical inheritance. Speaking of musical inheritance, Ross will end the program with Battleship a song released last month by David's daughter, Jordan Laser!

02.01.2022 NSW residents are facing a fresh virus nightmare after the state recorded an alarming 14 new #COVID19 cases overnight. Full story: http://newscomau.org/NSWCovidSpike

02.01.2022 Travel across the English Channel from 27-31 October at City Recital Hall with Ayres & Graces, featuring a jubilant program of music from the English and French Baroque. Directed by Principal Baroque Flute/Recorder, Melissa Farrow be swept away on a journey from the palatial to the pastoral with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, George Frideric Handel and more. Audiences unable to make it to the concert hall will also be able to enjoy the performance with an online digital première at 5pm on Sunday 1 November. Limited tickets available book your digital pass or live concert ticket today! Book now: https://www.brandenburg.com.au/concerts/2020/ayres-graces/

02.01.2022 Did you miss Trevor on Fine Music Sydney with Julie Simonds this morning? Click on the link below to hear all about his plans for DARLO UNDERGROUND our New York-style jazz and comedy club opening tomorrow night. For more information and bookings visit https://bit.ly/35V6hpR

02.01.2022 We are very excited to bring you Fine Music Sydney's regular Spotify playlist series "A Fine Selection" just in time for the weekend. This week consists of predominantly new releases, with music from Matthew Halsall, The Flashbulb, Anna Clyne & The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Joel Lyssarides, John Luther Adams, Jess Gillam reinterpreting James Blake, Eric Reed, East London Sound Ensemble, Fine Music Sydney studio guest Aaron Blakey and more. Here is the link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mDOo11p6y8sawcM33WGuE

01.01.2022 Tune in tomorrow for In Conversation with Simon Moore as he sits down with one of our artistic patrons Brett Weymark. Brett Weymark is one of the foremost choral conductors in Australia. Since becoming Artistic and Music Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in 2003, he has conducted the Choirs in performances around the country and internationally. He has also conducted the Sydney Symphony, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Sydney Youth Orchest...ra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and productions for WAAPA, Pacific Opera and OzOpera. Tune in 1pm or catch the interview on our website later on Radio On Demand.